[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [GSoC] Use Widget Layout for the Start Center

[Krisztian Pinter]

Hi all!

I created a patch with some of the suggested changes to see how they look:
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/5901/
The "get more templates" button was moved to the template manager, it has a
temporary icon.


On 6 September 2013 16:18, Mirek M. <mazelm at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Emir Yâsin SARI <bitigchi at me.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 6 Eyl 2013 tarihinde 17:47 saatinde, Tor Lillqvist şunları yazdı:
>>
>>  IMHO, it'd be great if LibreOffice could present each of its modules as
>>> completely separate applications,
>>>
>>
>> Hmm, that would mean LOTS of changes to our packaging and distribution on
>> OS X (something for which there isn't exactly an abundance of engineering
>> resources), where there now is just one app bundle, LibreOffice.app. You
>> mean there would be separate LibreOfficeWriter.app, LibreOfficeCalc.app,
>> etc? Where would their shared code be? (Duplicated in each app? Sure, that
>> would work, but the usual suspects would whine "think of the people who
>> have to pay $$ per megabyte of download") How would installing such a thing
>> work, if on a .dmg, dragging each .app separately to /Applications? Etc...
>>
>> I think current approach is better, it also gives a seamless interaction
>> between components, like editing Calc sheets in Writer which MS Office on
>> Mac cannot do, but what LibreOffice needs is separate component links, like
>> the ability to put Calc or Writer separately on Dock, eliminating extra
>> clicks, though I am not sure if it is possible or not. In any case it would
>> require some separation of components.
>>
>
> Exactly. I'd like the Mac version to present modules in exactly the same
> way they are presented on Linux and Windows. (To the user, they seem like
> separate applications.) How that would be best done, though, I have no clue.
> I know the Office:Mac installer automatically creates all the shortcuts to
> the different applications, but I'm betting that that kind of installer
> would require the changes you mentioned. And I have no clue how to separate
> things like Exposé or the application menu.
>
> That said, what I said earlier was targeted at Linux/Windows, where the
> separation exists already, it just isn't complete.
>
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