<div class="gmail_extra">2012/4/26 Tor Lillqvist <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tml@iki.fi" target="_blank">tml@iki.fi</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">> I see your GSoC project "Java GUI for Libre-Office Based Android App(s)" has<br>
> been accepted.<br>
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</div>Umm, I am the mentor, not the student doing it, you know that right? ;)<br></blockquote><div><br>Yes, that's what I meant. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im"><br>
> Would you be interested in working on it along with the<br>
> design team?<br>
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</div>Sure, definitely.<br></blockquote><div><br>Great. :) <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im"><br>
> What scope should we design for? Could our designs incorporate<br>
> basic editing (+formatting) commands or would that not be useful to you?<br>
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</div>I think we would be satisfied if what is achieved during GSoC is<br>
purely viewer app(s), for text documents, spreadsheets and<br>
presentations. (Supporting an as large set of formats as possible for<br>
each.)<br>
<br>
Being able to edit brings in many more technical issues (not just UI<br>
ones) that need to be solved. But one can of course always hope that<br>
just a viewer turns out to be trivial, and the student and I have time<br>
to work on editing, too.<br></blockquote><div><br>Should there be a separate view mode, then, or would the viewing UI gradually develop into an editing UI? <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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There aren't really many concrete plans yet. We don't know for<br>
instance whether it will make sense to combine handling of all three<br>
document types (text, spreadsheet, presentation) into one app, or have<br>
a separate one for each.<br></blockquote><div><br>Will your decision depend largely on the technical difficulties posed by each option, or is this more of a UX problem?<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im"><br>
> What should be our priorities -- a UI for the file manager, a generic file<br>
> viewer, Writer, Impress, ...?<br>
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</div>I guess first you should look at competing products and see what they<br>
do. I don't have any Android device (yet) myself even, so I have no<br>
clue if a "file manager" makes sense or not, and typically exists in<br>
Android apps. (I have an iPad and Apple's Pages, Numbers and Keynote<br>
on it, and on iOS, or in those apps, there definitely is no "file<br>
manager" in the desktop style, at least.)<br></blockquote><div><br>Not in the desktop style. What I meant was something used to manage LibreOffice files within LibreOffice, since Android has no generic file manager, something more akin to Gnome Documents. Take a look at <a href="https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/File_Manager">https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/File_Manager</a> to get a better idea.<br>
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I *think* that if we need to choose, presentations might be the kind<br>
of document we should start with.<br>
<br>
I found this link somewhere:<br>
<a href="http://www.christopherstark.de/extern/LO-Android/Android_LO.html" target="_blank">http://www.christopherstark.de/extern/LO-Android/Android_LO.html</a> , is<br>
this from somebody also on the LibreOffice design team, or an<br>
independent person? That design of course is for editing-capable apps.<br></blockquote><div><br>It's from a member of the design team. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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This discussion should really be on the public LibreOffice development<br>
mailing list... please forward your original mail and this my reply to<br>
it, if it is OK with you.<br></blockquote><div><br>I'll forward it to the UX advise mailing list (where developers and designers meet).<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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--tml<br>
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