You edit styles through an “Edit” button in the menu, which gives you: It’s a pretty huge menu, since it includes all the various things you can set for a paragraph. When menus are this big, they get expandable categories. In this mockup, you see 9 of those, of which only “Font” is expanded. Styles … Continue reading »
Posted in October 2010 …
Citrus: An evolution of the menu
I’ve been thinking about the menu behavior I introduced and there’s something that really bothers me about it: If it was possible to have several submenus expanded at once, the menu would get big pretty quickly. And if not (i.e. if by expanding a submenu, the last open submenu would be closed), then all the menu … Continue reading »
Splash
Splash screens always bothered me. They unnecessarily take up screen estate (and right in the middle of the screen, the place you need most) just to tell me that my application is loading. I know that it’s loading — I launched it. None of my other applications load right when I click their icon, and … Continue reading »
Why We Can Do Better than the Ribbon
There’s a bunch of people who like the Ribbon. And there’s a bunch of people who don’t like it and either keep using Office 2003 (or earlier), use alternatives like OOo and LibO, or crankily use one of the ribboned versions of Office. I actually think the change from Office 2003 to Office 2007 was … Continue reading »
Go, make your own UI
I’m releasing the SVG to Citrus UI under the CC0 license (that means you can do whatever you want with them, without any restrictions) where possible — I’m not sure how the LibO logo, which is used, or the various fonts I used figure into this, so this license only applies to the parts that … Continue reading »
Citrus Tabs
Since Citrus UI hides rulers by default (based on an old discussion on the OOo mailing list), I wanted to figure out some other way of presenting some of the functionality of the good ol’ ruler (like tab and paragraph alignment) to the user. So… This shows up when a user puts the cursor at … Continue reading »
The Citrus Search Box
The Search Box is basically an all-purpose search box. It can search the current document, all open documents, menu items, help items, and, if enabled (as sending queries online is a privacy concern), online help items, tutorials, and commands from downloadable extensions. If the list of search results is too big, it’ll get a scroll … Continue reading »
Citrus: Page selection
(If you haven’t read about Citrus UI, you might want to read at least the intro first.) You probably noticed that there is now a page number next to the page in Writer. This number is actually a bit more than an indicator — if you click on it, it selects the page group (page … Continue reading »
Citrus: Possible solution to pane
I’m posting this because it deals with the multiple-pane problem discussed on the mailing list. Here’s a work-in-progress of the LibreOffice menu mock-up. Multiple panes would be managed under the “Layout” dropdown — you would select the open documents you’d like to open under several panes in a single window, click “Layout”, select the pane … Continue reading »
The Citrus Menu
(Read the intro before reading this.) The menus in Citrus aren’t quite what menus are today. I’ll explain with a mockup: You’ll notice a few different things. There are sliders and buttons and text boxes in the menu now, to replace dialog windows. In this menu, there’s also a second pane that houses styles. You can … Continue reading »
