Hello Michel, Good to have some brand new ideas... any taker to mentor them (or some of them)?
-- Cedric On Sun, 2015-02-01 at 13:05 +0100, Michel Renon wrote: > Hi, > > Le 29/01/2015 17:06, Michael Meeks a écrit : > > [...] > > * GSoC (Cedric) > > + We need to have new ideas added to the wiki page: > > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Gsoc/Ideas > > + sooner the better etc. preferably before FOSDEM: today / > > tomorrow. > > > here are some ideas : if you think some might be interesting, tell me > and I'll make some specs/ux design > > > > > - writer : > when you drag'n'drop several images in a document, all images are > anchored at the same paragraph. If user wants each image to be bellow > the previous, he has to do that manually (think about writing a user > manual with lots of screenshots). > --> Add something to allow user to select the anchor type (or better : > some predefined layout) of the dropped images. > "something" might be a floating/popup panel or a sidebar panel ? > > > - calc : > indicate sheet protection via something visual in the tab sheets. > Maybe an icon beside the name inside each tab ? > Maybe add an option to visually identify protected cells (dim protected > cells or highlight editable cells) > TBD : how/where to indicate if the whole document is protected ? > > > - calc : > - allow to easily call python/js/beanshell/.. functions from cell > formula. just do "=MyPythonFunction()". It would allow to easily use > scientific python libraries. > > - show a suggestion panel for functions, just bellow the edited cell > (a kind of autocomplete, with infos about function, args...) > > - the suggestion panel may allow to create new functions (name and > arguments) and then switch to macro editor ; default code would include > useful comments (some how-to, building blocks, sample codes...) > > - the existing function wizard should list functions from all > languages (python/js/beanshell/..). TBD : how to handle documentation of > user-defined macros ? > > > - macros : > - reorganize dialogs (I made a quick proposal that would need further > polishing) : > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboard/Macros_Dialogs#Proposal_by_Michel_R > (but the iTunes-like selector is not consistent with the current macro > editor) > > - replace the macro editor engine with scintilla > (http://www.scintilla.org/) to allow to edit easily other languages > (python/js/beanshell/..) ; writing a scintilla lexer for LOBasic should > not be complicated. > > > > > - general: > reorganize "Insert" menu > ex with writer : > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:Michelr#Writer_:_new_Insert_menu > (A consequence is that OLE embedding needs to have some visual/UX bugs > corrected : I'll file bugs asap) > > > > - writer/calc : > transpose the current "table design" sidebar panel from impress to > writer and calc. > It would not answer the need for table styles, but it would replace > existing obsolete autoformat dialog. > For calc, it would modify selected cells. > The "table design" panel could be slightly enhanced to handle some more > options (change colors, text options...) > > > > - draw: > when user selects multiple shapes, there is only one visual selection (a > rect with 9 green handles) around all selected objets. The problem is > that user doesn't know exactly which objects are selected. > Change that to have each object selected, with their own blue handles. > > > > > Hope this helps, > > Michel > > > > > _______________________________________________ > LibreOffice mailing list > LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
