Any plans to incorporate anything from the Lotus Symphony UI?

users
#1

Hello,

I read recently that IBM had finally donated all of the Lotus Symphony UI code to AOO...

Are there any plans to at least take a look at this code and possibly cherry pick it to give a facelift for LO? I don't want (hate!) the ribbon in MSO, but would love to see the UI with a decent facelift/refresh...

#2

And what did you have in mind?

Would you have a different UI style in mind, or are there perhaps existing bugs and issues that would warrant higher prioritisation?

#3

As far as I know there are no such plans.

Best Regards,
Joel

#4

The only thing I heard about this, in the past, was the possibilityof adding "Tabbed" documents, like you find in browsers using "new tab" or "new window". Adding that might take a lot of work.

#5

Tabbed interface (should be optional/easy to drag/move a doc out into its own window), formatting tools/toolbars on the side (Symphony are on the right, but should be movable), TaskPane (similar to the ribbon, but doesn't replace the menus), and there are others...

Lots to pick from, so it should at least be on the table...

#6

I hear from a believable source that OpenOffice will incorporate some or all the symphony GUI in its next release, later this year.

--doug

#7

It's a ridiculous amount of work to integrate the code even if it's open.
Furthermore, the debate is ongoing and heated about if those kinds of
changes are even desired.

Best,
Joel

#8

These are reasonable suggestions.

I personally would like to see an improvement in the ease with which to adjust the bullet/ numbering options. One of my biggest bug-bears with LibO (and OOo before that) is the unreasonable difficulty the user experiences with bulleted and numbered lists. I know a couple of others who seem to experience a similar level of difficulty, so I would certainly put this on my wish list :slight_smile:

Is there a request list available?

#9

File a bug and QA (me or one of my colleagues) will mark it as an
enhancement request.

https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/bug/

Best,
Joel

#10

Not a list for Feature Requests, but you can go to
http://bugs.freedesktop.org and file a request (Feature requests are
handled using the issue reporting system)

#11

For the record, _I_ desire the Symphony interface. If it wasn't so buggy
I would use Symphony to the exclusion of any of the other freebies. And
if OO comes thru as promised, that's what I'll use.
--doug

#12

Yeah, I read that too - but I don't use AOO, I use LibO, hence my question here specifically baout LibO's plans on doing the same... :slight_smile:

#13

Also I found Approach far more intuitive than Base. We could use Approach in our business, Base is just too much effort, too high a skill set required for an average user.

#14

Hi :slight_smile:
Any menus or ribbons or whatnot (thanks Amiko) at the top or bottom on a wide-screen display drives me nuts.  I really should just turn my wide-screen on it's side so i can see documents properly instead of through a letter-box.  How come mobile devices have a portrait mode by default!!  Grrrr

Lol
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#15

Something like -
  <http://pauloup.deviantart.com/gallery/28216273>
  <http://www.freedomsponsors.org/core/issue/175/new-libreoffice-ui>

?

#16

For those of you very interested in this, I encourage you to join the UX
team and get the projects rolling. It's easy to say "that would be cool"
but we really need contributors who are implementing the ideas. The UX team
is in dire need of members, coding experience helps but isn't necessarily
required.

http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-ux-advise

I hope that ALL of you will join and help us make these dreams come true.

Best Regards,
Joel

#17

Hi Steve,

Also I found Approach far more intuitive than Base. We could use
Approach in our business, Base is just too much effort, too high a skill
set required for an average user.

Yep, but Approach has never been part of Lotus Symphony...

Alex

#18

Hi,

I hear from a believable source that OpenOffice will incorporate some or
all the symphony GUI in its next release, later this year.

Yeah, I read that too - but I don't use AOO, I use LibO, hence my
question here specifically baout LibO's plans on doing the same... :slight_smile:

I'd like it much better if it weren't so damn slow...on my Macbook with
OSX 10.8, it is slower to start than any of OOo, AOO, NeoOffice or
LibreOffice.

The MDI and tabbed interface (which I happen to like) is/was heavily
dependent on Java from what I recall having read on the AOO lists, so I
can't see the LO project wanting to have an even greater Java code
burden than at present.

Alex

#19

Hi :slight_smile:
If you want to request a new feature then post it as a bug-report
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport
but somewhere in the drop-downs is an options called something like
"Feature Request" or "Enhancement Request" or something like that.  In some other OpenSource programs people just write it into the subject-line but with square brackets around as though its a tag, like;
[Feature Request] or [Enhancement Request] or more usually [wish-list] (note it's shorter!)
So, if you can't find the right option in the right dro-down then just try that instead because the triagers (QA here) will work out what to do pretty quickly!
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile: