I just wanted to congratulate you, Caolán, for your excellent work on this. I’m no UI expert, but I guess we should follow the GNOME HIG’s recommendations for dialogs [1] —except for the OK/Cancel button order, which should continue as is today for Windows users—…
-- [1]: http://developer.gnome.org/hig-book/3.2/design-window.html.en Fitoschido On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Caolán McNamara <[email protected]> wrote: > So widget layout is in master for about a week now without too much > complaining yet. See > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/WidgetLayout for an > overview and some screenshots > > What I think would be a good idea at this stage is for ux-advise to have > a look over the converted dialogs and... > a) come up with some recommendations for e.g. default space between > widgets in grid rows/columns and if we should persist with vertical > button towers where we still use them, etc. > b) make them prettier. > > The .ui files can be edited with glade (http://glade.gnome.org/). No > need to restart LibreOffice after editing an existing .ui in order to > see the changes, just close the dialog and re-open it. There is also a > standalone ui previewer tool "ui-previewer" > > The filenames of the following conversions are fairly self-describing if > you want to see them live in action in e.g. a daily build. > > ./sw/uiconfig/swriter/ui/charurlpage.ui > ./sw/uiconfig/swriter/ui/autoformattable.ui > ./sw/uiconfig/swriter/ui/converttexttable.ui > ./sw/uiconfig/swriter/ui/sortdialog.ui > ./sw/uiconfig/swriter/ui/columnwidth.ui > ./sw/uiconfig/swriter/ui/stringinput.ui > ./sw/uiconfig/swriter/ui/insertbreak.ui > ./sw/uiconfig/swriter/ui/linenumbering.ui > ./sw/uiconfig/swriter/ui/wordcount.ui > ./sw/uiconfig/swriter/ui/titlepage.ui > ./sw/uiconfig/swriter/ui/splittable.ui > ./sw/uiconfig/swriter/ui/inserttable.ui > ./sw/uiconfig/swriter/ui/printeroptions.ui > ./sd/uiconfig/simpress/ui/printeroptions.ui > ./sd/uiconfig/sdraw/ui/printeroptions.ui > ./starmath/uiconfig/smath/ui/printeroptions.ui > ./sc/uiconfig/scalc/ui/printeroptions.ui > ./sfx2/uiconfig/ui/password.ui > ./cui/uiconfig/ui/hyphenate.ui > ./cui/uiconfig/ui/twolinespage.ui > ./cui/uiconfig/ui/specialcharacters.ui > ./cui/uiconfig/ui/positionpage.ui > ./cui/uiconfig/ui/zoomdialog.ui > ./cui/uiconfig/ui/charnamepage.ui > ./cui/uiconfig/ui/effectspage.ui > ./cui/uiconfig/ui/thesaurus.ui > ./vcl/uiconfig/ui/printdialog.ui > > C. > > _______________________________________________ > Libreoffice-ux-advise mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-ux-advise _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
