[Libreoffice] Suggestions for improving the look 'n' feel of LibreOffice

[Alexander.wilms@zoho.com]

Hi Kevin, all

Thats good to hear :).

I've just created this small mock-up, of what I think could be a good 
solution:

http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:Toxicbits

What do you think?

Greetings

Alex

Am Sa 29 Okt 2011 23:37:47 CEST schrieb Kevin Hunter:
> At 12:57pm -0400 Fri, 28 Oct 2011, Alexander Wilms wrote:
>> There's a short summary with a few examples in this document:
>> http://ubuntuone.com/7m7AXgeh7OIwGBiCOHAjGh
>>
>> 1) It would be useful if the user could define alternating colors
>> for table rows/columns and maybe even export Styles for
>> text/shapes/tables formatting and coloring to a xml file or something
>> for easy exchange.
>
> I concur that this would be very helpful, at least in my line(s) of 
> work. I hope, however, that it could be more general than just "every 
> other" row/column. For instance, there are times I need every 3rd row 
> to be colored, or I need a set of 2 rows colored every 2 rows. 
> Something like
>
> Row 1: color 1
> Row 2: color 1
> Row 3: color 2
> Row 4: color 2
> Row 5: color 1
> Row 6: color 1
> Row 7: color 2
> Row 8: color 2
> etc.
>
> I've done this manually to date, but having a general description or 
> way to handle this would be *very* nice.
>
> As to how difficult it would be to implement? I don't know. I'm not 
> working in that part of the code. However, I'll bet an interested 
> (coding) party would have an easier time going about it if there were 
> an actual use-case/specification.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Kevin