[Libreoffice] [libreoffice-design] Change application background [was: How to contribute ?]

[Andy Brown]

On Fri Jan 07 2011 17:05:02 GMT-0800 (PST)  Bernhard Dippold wrote:
> Hi Rahul, all,
> 
> Rahul Prasad schrieb:
>> [..]
>> *
>> I was thinking of a nice background instead of a static colour.
>> You can find some of my design here
>> http://rahulprasad.com/public/libreOffice/writer/
>> Although design is not very appealing, but I am sure people will come 
>> come
>> up with better design.*
> 
> This idea has already been presented some time ago in the OOo UX 
> project, but has not been implemented by now (AFAIK).
> 
> I can't find the proposal right now, but I'm quite sure, Christoph knows 
> where to find it.
> 
> As our structure is different from the OOo project, it is much more 
> likely that your ideas might become implemented. What you need is a 
> developer interested in adding a "choose background color/image"-feature 
> to the product.
> 
> I'm forwarding this mail to the developer list, CC'ing you, so you 
> should get their replies even if you didn't subscribe to this list via
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
> 
> I don't know if this feature is easy or hard to implement, but perhaps 
> it can be added to the list of "easy hacks":
> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Easy_Hacks
> 
> ... where developer can pick it.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Bernhard
> 

As long as the background is an option I would have no problem with it.

Andy