[UX] Feedback wanted - Share your task pane experiences

[Kevin Grignon <ke...@gmail.com>]

Hello All,

In support of the AOO .next release, I have been exploring the UI design
for incorporating the Lotus Symphony sidebar in AOO. This sidebar will
provide a persistent pane to display contextual properties and addition
content, including gallery, navigator, and presentation actions.

Beyond the UI, I am also trying to understand how we might update and
enhancement the content of each pane. I need your help.

Please share any feedback, thoughts or opportunities for improvement
related to your current experience with task panes in either OpenOffice
3.4.1 or Lotus Symphony 3.0.1.

Regina has sent along some great feedback and some items we need to
address. What say the rest of you?

Thoughts?

Regards,
Kevin

Re: [UX] Feedback wanted - Share your task pane experiences

[Kevin Grignon <ke...@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 6:33 PM, RGB ES <rg...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2012/11/29 Kevin Grignon <ke...@gmail.com>
>
> > Hello All,
> >
> > In support of the AOO .next release, I have been exploring the UI design
> > for incorporating the Lotus Symphony sidebar in AOO. This sidebar will
> > provide a persistent pane to display contextual properties and addition
> > content, including gallery, navigator, and presentation actions.
> >
> > Beyond the UI, I am also trying to understand how we might update and
> > enhancement the content of each pane. I need your help.
> >
> > Please share any feedback, thoughts or opportunities for improvement
> > related to your current experience with task panes in either OpenOffice
> > 3.4.1 or Lotus Symphony 3.0.1.
> >
> > Regina has sent along some great feedback and some items we need to
> > address. What say the rest of you?
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Kevin
> >
>
>
> I use Writer most of the time and never tried Symphony. I have the
> Navigator and the Stylist docked, one on top of the other to the right side
> of Writer's window. Most of the time I use the stylists just to apply
> character styles and to know which character style is applied on the cursor
> position: right now, there is no other way to do that than using the
> Stylist. (for paragraph styles, I use the "next style" on the style
> definition and keyboard shortcuts to apply the first style on the
> sequence).
>
> A tabbed interface for the dockers will be a good addition. Also, a sort of
> "style picker" will be good: a place to see on one glance which paragraph,
> character and page style are applied that also allows a "quick apply" like
> the applied paragraph style box we have on the Formatting toolbar right
> now. The style information is scattered on all the corners of Writer
> interface and that's not comfortable.
>
> Regards
> Ricardo
>


Ricardo,

Thanks for sharing your experiences.

Stacking the panes provides some nice flexibility. We should look to
support stacked panes for the tabbed panes as well.

As for styles pane content, it appears that there is work to do make the
pane content and commands more useful. We should continue to explore this
topic.

Regards,
Kevin

Re: [UX] Feedback wanted - Share your task pane experiences

[RGB ES <rg...@gmail.com>]

2012/11/29 Kevin Grignon <ke...@gmail.com>

> Hello All,
>
> In support of the AOO .next release, I have been exploring the UI design
> for incorporating the Lotus Symphony sidebar in AOO. This sidebar will
> provide a persistent pane to display contextual properties and addition
> content, including gallery, navigator, and presentation actions.
>
> Beyond the UI, I am also trying to understand how we might update and
> enhancement the content of each pane. I need your help.
>
> Please share any feedback, thoughts or opportunities for improvement
> related to your current experience with task panes in either OpenOffice
> 3.4.1 or Lotus Symphony 3.0.1.
>
> Regina has sent along some great feedback and some items we need to
> address. What say the rest of you?
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Regards,
> Kevin
>


I use Writer most of the time and never tried Symphony. I have the
Navigator and the Stylist docked, one on top of the other to the right side
of Writer's window. Most of the time I use the stylists just to apply
character styles and to know which character style is applied on the cursor
position: right now, there is no other way to do that than using the
Stylist. (for paragraph styles, I use the "next style" on the style
definition and keyboard shortcuts to apply the first style on the sequence).

A tabbed interface for the dockers will be a good addition. Also, a sort of
"style picker" will be good: a place to see on one glance which paragraph,
character and page style are applied that also allows a "quick apply" like
the applied paragraph style box we have on the Formatting toolbar right
now. The style information is scattered on all the corners of Writer
interface and that's not comfortable.

Regards
Ricardo