I am glad to see the idea of Libre Office icons being re-proposed. I had
this idea proposed over ubuntu brainstorm during the development cycle
of Ubuntu 11.04 http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/27661/ trying to give
a solution about the "confusing icons of Libre Calc" according the
usability test http://lwn.net/Articles/438678/ but back then it was not
accepted as good idea.
What i proposed was :
"Personally I have removed the default icons (writer, calc,
presentation) from launcher and just added the "one icon for Libre
office" that starts the entire office suite.
Here is a screenshot of what I mean :
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/gu7f0Y6byzodgdykQQFlaQ?feat=directlink
<https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/gu7f0Y6byzodgdykQQFlaQ?feat=directlink>
The icon is available if you search for Libre office in Unity Dash. Its
the one that is in gray-white color without a name under the icon. Drag
it and place it on launcher. if you press it it will launch the Libre
office Startup Center where you can see all the available suites
(writer, cal, presentation, draw, etc.). Then you can click to whichever
you want.
I have done this to all the installations, for friends and colleges and
they totally understand what is the purpose of the icon. Initially they
where also confused by the cal icon where they thought it was a
calculator. After I have put the L.Office Start up Center icon in the
Launcher, they clicked it to see what it was and then the saw that it is
a complete office suite."
I see that this idea is re-opened as a usability bug here
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/864057
Hope this will be resolved until 12.04 stable.
On 03/04/2012 04:28 PM, Chris wrote:
@ supernova:
And what do you want to create with that? Something that would come
eerily close to GNOME and it's Shell. When you start using all the
default apps of GNOME they create a rather seamless experience. In
fact all the recent suggestions like a time-out function on the
shutdown window is already present.
@ Gustav:
This is actually a pretty good idea which has no precedence. I'd love
to see some mock ups on how this would look.
With metta, Chris
P.s.: supernova please don't take this personally, this is a reaction
after a build up of several weeks/months
On Mar 4, 2012 2:15 PM, "Gustav Sony" <sony...@live.de
<mailto:sony...@live.de>> wrote:
What about a *"HowTo" App* or *Lens* in Ubuntu, which is able to
answer what app can do and how to use it? Using Ubuntu
SoftwareCenter with more keywords (also translated), adding
Tutorials from YouTube, direct links to ubuntu-wiki /ubuntuusers
and create a FAQ. Maybe with Ask-Ubuntu integration?
Am 04.03.2012 13 <tel:04.03.2012%2013>:22, schrieb supernova:
Could make sense to phenotype develope some apps native for
ubuntu? Like a browser, multimedia, offfice...
This could give extreme integration, less toolkits, and make
ubuntu famous for its apps, better then those if other OSes...
Supernova
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