[Libreoffice-ux-advise] File menu thoughts ...

[Mirek M.]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Michael Meeks
<michael.meeks at collabora.com>wrote:

>
> On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 12:37 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote:
> > Quick queries, dangerous future ... :)
>
>         No real urgency. However - I think we need a good design for
> integrating cloud storage into LibreOffice in a way that doesn't just
> ram more cruft & horrible interactions into the 'File' menu, and
> preferably starts to unwind the mess of things around the 'document'
> that we want to show, but don't really have many good places to put.
>

What kind of cloud storage integration are we talking here?
If it's e.g. Google Drive file sync, I'd suggest we do something similar to
Gnome Documents [1] using the new Start Center. Synced documents would be
shown among local documents, but with a special badge. Synchronization
would be managed from the Start Center and from a file's Properties dialog.

(Ideally, the Start Center should evolve to act as a kind of document
launcher/file manager listing all of the user's LibreOffice documents, not
unlike what you see in apps for Android/iOS. Once it's mature enough,
modules should start up with their respective sections in the Start Center
rather than with a new document.)

> I realise that I need more time ...
>
>         Sure :-) that's fine - no-one is pulling a trigger right now.
>
>         Looking forward to your thoughts,
>
>         Regards,
>
>                 Michael.
>
> --
>  michael.meeks at collabora.com  <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot
>
>
[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Documents
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