Thank you, Charles, and other responders. I won't have much email
access for the next eight hours, but I'll read and respond to all your
messages when I'm able. In the meantime, if you'd like to repost my
message to other mailing lists, please go ahead and do it!
Thanks,
Ben
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On Jun 3, 2009, at 11:16 AM, "Charles-H. Schulz" <[email protected]
> wrote:
Alexandro,
Le Wed, 3 Jun 2009 06:03:02 -0500,
Alexandro Colorado <[email protected]> a écrit :
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 4:04 AM, Charles-H. Schulz
<[email protected]> wrote:
Ben,
I love your idea, and I would like to see it not forgotten
somewhere on the wiki. So we have to work with the actual feature
design process. One way of integrating your views in the OOo
development process is the Renaissance project, but there may be
others, such as the o...@www incubator project. Did you push the
dashboard anywhere with the development team already?
Thanks,
Charles.
Hi Chales, I have been workin with Ben on the dashboard idea for quie
a while. We tried to pushit on the Google Summer of Code but some
issues regarding the volunteer registration stop us from going ahead
with him. Also we got people involved from the original team that
modified the StartModule (where would be the dashboard) and are
working with them. We need people that can make a built or a
modification where is easy to load this HTML within the StartModule
so we can have the flexibility to work with our implementation.
Like Ivan said, we would need more skillsets as we go along with JS
and XML and consider elements such as security and other aspects
beyond our technical capacity.
I think is great that Ben put this idea on marketing since it can
generate external interest beyond the people we are working with.
Please keep the feedback flowing. :)
I may be wrong but you need to formalize these things a bit: I mean
that you may want to fill out some specs documents, maybe open a
project here or shove it into an existing one. I'll try to see how I
can help.
Best,
Charles.
Le 3 juin 09 à 09:43, Ivan M a écrit :
P.S. I just noticed that you sent this to the marketing list -
please send a link to the UX list too as there is interest in this
idea over there as well!
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Ivan M <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi Ben, all,
I always get excited when there's discussion about a dashboard :P
Ben, thank you for sharing your design with us! Having the
dashboard in HTML is a great idea: just change the CSS and you
can get a completely different layout. Plus, the use of HTML and
JS could work really well for attracting a broad range of
contributors/developers, as you mentioned. There would probably
be a lot of XML involved too (e.g. recent file lists). There
would also probably be security considerations with JS that might
complicate the implementation of this idea - but the potential is
huge.
Here's a thought that got me thinking about your proposal: it
might seem odd to users that they would be able to customize the
dashboard so heavily, but not the rest of OOo (and I've seen many
suggestions by users saying that OOo should be skinnable).
Although this matter is well beyond the scope of the dashboard
(and I think that a customizable dashboard is a wonderful idea),
it does make me wonder - what if OOo (or at least, some parts of
it) could be skinned with CSS (a crazy idea, I know...)?
I'll add some more comments on your proposal later - I'm short on
time these days, but with a juicy topic (and a juicy mockup) like
this I just couldn't resist :)
Regards,
Ivan.
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Jean-Baptiste Faure
<[email protected]> wrote:
Le 03.06.2009 03:57, Benjamin Horst a écrit :
Hello,
I've been working on the Dashboard concept some more and have
the following semi-functional mockup to share. This would
appear in the OOo application window where the start center now
appears.
http://www.laboratory9.com/openoffice/oo_sample.php
It looks very interesting. I suggest to add direct access to
some help documentation such as FAQ, wiki, "getting started in 3
pages" for each module (perhaps 3 pages is to long) and complete
guide if available.
Another point : recent documents should show full names, in
order to not have to use mouse to get tooltip with the full
filename.
Regards
JBF
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