[Libreoffice-ux-advise] LATE FEATURE: Personas in LibreOffice

[Adolfo Jayme Barrientos]

No, I don’t agree on removing the feature from 4.0. We should improve
its rough edges instead of going the easy way.

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Stefan Knorr (Astron)
<heinzlesspam at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Michel, Kendy,
>
> * sorry this comes so late... *
>
> tldr: The background image UI should really go if it won't work.
>
>
> On 18 January 2013 10:03, Jan Holesovsky <kendy at suse.cz> wrote:
>>> May i make some suggestions on the pref panel ?
>>> - why not keep the "own image" to select an image in local hd ?
>
> Hm ... well, for Firefox, there's a persona builder add-on to do that.
> I think it can also upload personas, so in a way, that's covered.
>
> Additionally, of course, the background image functionality still
> doesn't work in master – so, given how...
> * we would need Kendy to work on this functionality, so it actually works
> * we would need string changes to point out that background images and
> personas are mutually exclusive (as you (Michel) already noticed)
>
> So, this leads me to believe that we're best of just removing the
> background images feature from 4.0.
>
>>> - if i understand ok (images and personas are exclusive), we can have
>>> the choices :
>>>       *Toolbar background*
>>>         O Default
>>>         O Image                  <Select Image...>
>>>         O Firefox Persona        <Select Persona...>
>>>
>>>       (I renamed "own image" to "Image")
>
> Overall, I agree to this structure... and I am actually fine with the
> shorter option titles – instead of the long options, a short
> introductory text above telling users unaware of the feature what
> Personas are would be nice (like "Use Personas to customize the
> background of your toolbar." not sure if needs any more than that).
> Again, this is now a feature for after 4.0.
>
>
>>> - would it be possible to add a preview of image/persona ?
>>> and a status text if there is an error (error loading image, error
>>> loading persona, timeout...).
>
> Agree.
>
> * * *
>
> On the design list, I wrote a small critique on the discoverability of
> the personas feature comparing it to the Firefox feature without any
> real solutions, just fyi...
> http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/A-new-old-branding-tp4028724p4030504.html
>
> Astron.
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Adolfo