Since Citrus has gone through many changes since I posted the Inkscape SVG, here is a link to a newer SVG: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B_RBf0YVtxzkYWFmYjM3YmQtYmU3OC00Zjg3LWE0MzctMTljNDJmY2NlOGM3&hl=fr As before, you’ll need Inkscape as well as the fonts Vegur, Ubuntu, Bitstream Vera, and, newly, Cantarell to render it correctly.
Posted in November 2010 …
Citrus Labs: Color codes
The icons in Citrus are very simple. They usually use one or two colors: white/black (depending on the theme) and a “group” color. By “group color”, I mean a color attributed to a certain set of commands. In the two mockups above, you can tell that blue is the group color for text commands, while … Continue reading »
Citrus: The “View” Menu Problem
While trying to reorganize LibO’s menus, I ran into a problem. You’ve probably noticed that, in Citrus, menus (except “View” and “Insert”) are organized by the thing they apply to: things under “LibreOffice” apply to LibreOffice in general, things under “File” apply only to the current file, and so on. You’ve also probably noticed that … Continue reading »
Citrus Labs: Paragraph selection
Not too long ago, I introduced Fizz. The point of Fizz is to make simple edits quicker. If you select text, you get Fizz, if you select an image, you get Fizz, if you select a page, a table, a chart, you get Fizz. Yet… there’s no simple way to select a paragraph. So… here’s … Continue reading »
Citrus Labs: LibreOffice Home
I promised to talk a bit about LibreOffice Home, so here I go. (Keep in mind that this is all a proposal, none of this is actually planned for LibO.) LibreOffice Home started basically just as a successor to the current Start Center, but grew into the successor of most of the current dialogs in … Continue reading »
Citrus Labs
In the next few days, I’ll be posting about two or three posts, and then I’m probably not going to be here for a while. These posts will be about ideas I haven’t really thought about much yet and that aren’t fully “baked” yet, but they might prove useful and inspirational nevertheless. So I hereby … Continue reading »
Citrus: Getting there
Whenever you have a major UI overhaul, it’s pretty hard to imagine how to get there gradually, without causing any power user to get frustrated and leave. So I put together this potential roadmap on how LibO could get to Citrus gradually: Milestone 1: The little things Improved splash screen: make the splash screen tiny, … Continue reading »
Citrus Fizz
There’s a UI element I haven’t brought up yet. I’m sure you’ve seen versions of it elsewhere, I’m not sure what it’s called though, so I’ll just call it Fizz for now, because that’s terse. It appears centered just above the selection. Unlike MS Office’s Mini toolbar, Fizz always appears above the selection and so … Continue reading »
Citrus: Styles
This post aims to summarize everything style-related about Citrus. Where they are Styles appear in several places in Citrus. They appear in contextual menus (“Page”, “Paragraph”, “Text”, “Image”, “Table”, etc.). They appear in the contextual toolbar. You can even have a Styles sidebar. And you get styles on right-click. You can edit styles from all these … Continue reading »
