[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Libreoffice] Styles cleanup & removing option page std fonts

[Dag Wieers]

On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Michael Meeks wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 16:19 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote:
>
>> It would make using OpenOffice by default more attractive without the need
>> to look for existing templates and/or mess around with styles. I know one
>> can already do this for themselves, but normal users shouldn't be exposed
>> to it for basic usage. The current default styles just don't cut it :-/
>
> 	Quite - of course, all we need is one heroic volunteer here to update
> them, and to work at creating some attractive default styles. Luckily
> this doesn't even require any programming experience: just mail some
> document templates with the new style information ;-)
>
> 	Are you volunteering ? (and it's worth checking the result with the
> ux-advise guys too of course).

I am willing to help there, certainly ! But I'd rather have someone with 
some design skills come up with a generic color palette and styles that 
can be reused throughout documents, presentations and spreadsheets.

If you let me do it, I would go with the default styles of AsciiDoc which 
I am reimplementing in ODF. They are not the most attractive, but 
certainly better than what is now the default. I am sure a stylist can 
come up with something better looking though !

One of the ideas I think would be great, is having a small LibreOffice 
logo on the default document somewhere on the lower-right of the page. Or 
in the default footer. The logo is stylish and non-obtrusive.

PS I was very impressed with the default presentation stylesheet for the 
conference. And maybe green is a nice color for the default. Who did design
that template ?

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