<div dir="ltr">Hi all!<div><br></div><div>Sorry for the late reply!</div><div><br></div><div>(Disclaimer: I'm not an UI designer, just trying to use my own flavor of common sense here, so I apologize in advance to any UI professionals if I say something very stupid. :-)<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for all the responses, and thanks Mirek for starting the whiteboard and creating a mockup (which I liked).</div><div>I had something with tabs in mind as well. I created a rudimentary mockup myself before posting this, and in its concept it's close to what Mirek did. I think tabs should correspond to modules, feels more practical to me, and I think this is what the average user might find more comfortable/familiar.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Currently when LO starts, the question Star Center asks is "Which module would you like to use?". Olivier's design asks the question "Would you like to create a new document, create a new document from a template or open a recent one?"</div>
<div>I think users don't fire up LO thinking "I want to create a document from a template" or "I want to open a recent file" but something like "I want to start a new spreadsheet (in Calc)" or "I want to continue working on my slash fic (in Writer)".</div>
<div>The point I'm trying to make is that I think users first think about what type of document they want to work with, and second what they want to do with it, and so this is the order Start Center should be asking the user these questions.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Obviously, this is all just speculation, and I'm not 100% confident in my reasoning, so please, tell me what you think.</div><div><br></div><div>The idea about different filetypes having different colored shadows: that's interesting, but I think a small icon for the filetype should also be put in a corner of the thumbnail or something, because it wouldn't be very helpful for color blind people.</div>
<div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">All the best,</div><div class="gmail_extra">Krisztian<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 26 July 2013 10:47, Mirek M. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mazelm@gmail.com" target="_blank">mazelm@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Krisztian,<div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Krisztian Pinter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pin.terminator@gmail.com" target="_blank">pin.terminator@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi all!</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I'm working on this GSoC project: <a href="https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Gsoc/Ideas#Use_Widget_Layout_for_the_Start_Center" target="_blank">https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Gsoc/Ideas#Use_Widget_Layout_for_the_Start_Center</a></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">"Currently, the Start Center (the start screen you get when you start LibreOffice) is only a static bitmap, with few buttons and links. It would be useful to present few recently used documents there (as thumbnails), and do more fancy stuff.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">See this overview and WidgetLayout to get more information about the Widget Layout (this part is actually very similar to the above mentioned task). Additionally, code for rendering the thumbnails will have to be introduced, and maybe some code sharing with the new Template Manager will be needed too."</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Sounds good. I was about to say that perhaps you could try to reuse the Template Manager's thumbnail rendering. <br></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I've already converted the current startcenter to .ui, and it has been merged to master, but it's still being improved. I'm currently working on adding thumbnails for recent docs.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I'd like to request a mockup for the startcenter (with thumbnails for recent docs), so we can make it look nice and pretty.</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>I started a whiteboard for it: <a href="https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/Start_Center" target="_blank">https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/Start_Center</a>. <br>
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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Kendy, my GSoC mentor, listed these points as his preference:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<div>>* Keep the buttons to start apps some way (but they could be smaller or organized another way<br></div><div>>* Keep the LibreOffice logo, but the other visual things (like the shadows etc.) might go from my point of view<br>
</div><div>>* Make it resizable, so that the screen size is better used (ie. no more fixed rectangle in the middle of the screen)</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>I tried to incorporate these into the scope. Take a look at it and feel free to make changes based on what you feel like doing. :)<br>
<br></div><div>Thanks for working on this!<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>
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Looking forward to your feedback!</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">All the best,</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Krisztian</div></div>
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