UPDATE: Go look here for a more recent proposal.
This is another overview post (a follow-up to this overview post), except that this one is dynamic, factoring in new Citrus UI blog posts as they come.
Here’s a fresh version of the Inkscape SVG for Citrus UI.
Menus, the context bar, and fizz
Click or Tap 
Awesome mock ups!! Is Citrus UI is being adopted for LibreOffice (or any other office suite) ?
No.
I don’t expect the whole thing to be incorporated into LibreOffice, but some parts might be. If you want to help shape what becomes of LibreOffice, you should join the design mailing list.
That said, I’ve been quite absent from discussions there, partly because I’m quite busy nowadays, partly because I don’t feel like digging through the piles of e-mails I have from the mailing list. I’ll try to get more involved when I have time.
this is brilliant, in a very SPARTAAA way.
Citrus is beautiful and a really good idea. Congrats! I only pray LibreOffice menus won’t eventually have a Microsoft Office ribbon look. I never got used to it. I think that placing at least some toolbars on the sides is a great way to save vertical space in modern wide screens.
Thanks for your contribution to LibreOffice!!
I really love your Citrus UI concept. It’s would be a big welcome change from the current LibreOffice UI.
🙂 Thanks.
Very elegant designs.
WOW! Great concept, Love it! when this concept release on libre office?
It might not ever get implemented.
As I said in another comment, first we need specifications on every feature in these mockups, which the design team needs to agree upon, and developers can take it from there.
Join the design mailing list if you want to get involved: http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/
I love this mock-up! 😉
This is must have for LibreOffice, clean, modern visualy consistent with GNOME3 and Unity, why not. What we, as users, can do to see this in LO?
Thanks 🙂
Join the LibreOffice design mailing list, join the conversation: http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/
This is great! Please Please Make Citrus UI the UI for libre office. End of. It’s one of the nicest (probably THE nicest) office suite UI I’ve ever seen and the current UI is the worst. Libre office currently looks like it belongs in 1995 whereas Citrus UI looks much more modern.
Why did you stop the mockups? This blog is actually one of the last hopes for good app designs for linux. Please keep posting more mockups.
I didn’t stop. You can look at the new ones here: https://clickortap.wordpress.com/
I don’t really have much time for this, though.
If you want to help or just wonder what needs to be done, specifications of every feature in these mockups have to be drafted and agreed upon, and only then can development start. Lend a hand if you want and join the design mailing list 🙂 : http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/
it’s really nice! Try to make a icon set with just a few colors, the bar at the left has much to many colors in my opinion!
Look on the home page for more recent mockups : https://clickortap.wordpress.com/ . The bar on the left is monochrome there (only the selected tool appears in color).
cool, thanks 🙂
Love It!!!!
Would be perfect, if it would become the default interface!
Nice.. LibreOffice must ported this mockup to real UI !
How will this look on a mac?
That is the design and UI I have been waiting for to preach for LibreOffice. Excellent! Can’t wait to see it incorporated in LibreOffice.
I think there’s nothing wrong with the current interface of LibreOffice and the old interface of MS Office. Why do we have to change the way we use a tool with which we are already productive?
This is exactly what Libreoffice & ubuntu needed. Keep up the good progress. I will be using it allot.
Muito legal mesmo!!! Espero essa interface logo no LibreOffice XD
Simply awesome!!
That’s what I call desing, awesome
Me encanta, me gustaría ver algunas capturas de como quedaría el procesador de textos.
Genial, apoyo la causa 🙂
if LibreOffice will implement this design it would be big step forward.
Why?
LibreOffice has (almost) all required features for office system, but for average user it doesn’t matter.
In Nova days first place took design and functions usability.
This is why Open Office, Libre Office is far away from Microsoft Office 2007 or 2010.
Keep it simple and eye candy.
Great job, WONDERFULL ideea!
Everything seems great. The page styles are wonderfull, this is a really good implementation of a basic need.
However in my opinion, the document should be positioned at the middle of the window, the left sidebar pushes the center of the document to right.
And for localization purposes, the icons can be preffered instead of Letter, i.e C(Colour), locatization may be confusing, ie in Turkish this button must be R(Renk).
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Seems clear and cool, and i really loved the page styles tool.
Good work. Really good!
Think that’ll be looking “great” on my e17. Plz, if Citrus’ll become default GUI – make some way to use the old one
Waw I like it, grande LibreOffice!!!
This is how libreoffice should look !!
This is an amazing interface idea, realy !
Well I like this UI. A long time ago, I left OOo and then LibreOffice due to old GUI. Even if it is a bit like “Ribbon Interface” but its cool. I wish it to be implemented in next versions.
good jop
This is fantastic, long overdue, cannot wait
Pretty good UI, like it.
Much better than the current one, however I have a serious issue with this (and with all Office applications, too): The displays are tending to be widescreen while the documents are typically in portrait orientation: Why don’t you place more control on the sides? You take crucial area at the top of the screen so users can see less from the document while they can wonder on two “blind”, useless columns on the right and the left of the document.
Please consider my thoughts – at least it should be configurable to place the whole ribbon or whatever to the side and it must be still good-looking.
Thanks.
This is the kind of stuff that attracts and KEEPS users into F/OSS!
wow… is amazing ui for libre office. this is like MS Office 2010
If you implement this I’ll throw my Microsoft Office 2011 away!!!
Gimme-gimme!
Really nice designs, awasome!
Really good UI, I would love to be added Libre Office 🙂
I hope you will continue your studies..
I think what i like most about it is that its such a modern twist on an older interface. lets face it, the current Libre Office UI is the same layout style that was used in star office and MS Office ’95 it hasnt changed until MS implemented the ribbon which most people hate. this is a modern spin on an old concept. everyone is used to this layout so going ribon would be dumb. i love the side bar! thats one of those things where its like a bold step in the modern direction without being so drastic its overwhelming. Do want! 😀 keep it up man!
Mirek, how do you create all of your mockup? I need the tutorial or short, very short description. Thank you.
Download Inkscape from http://inkscape.org/
All of the mockups are done with just shapes. Useful shortcuts to know for Inkscape are: “Ctrl+Shift+F”, which shows the color fill panel, “Ctrl+Shift+L”, which shows the layer panel, and “Ctrl+Shift+A” which shows the align panel.
It’s also useful to use pixels as units and align your shapes to a whole-unit grid.
Take a look at the Downloads section of this site: https://clickortap.wordpress.com/svgs/ . Play with the downloadables in Inkscape — you’ll get the hang of it. 🙂
Okay, thanks!
Is there any way to pressure LibreOffice to adopt this UI? I’m sure a lot of people would be interested in it!
Not really.
What we need is interested developers.
I hope the fallback mode like gnome 3 And I want ribbon clone interface.
Ouch, this looks so nice! Will FOSS ever look nice? Wonder, why the core devs never prioritize the user experience. This would make convincing friends to user the free office suite so much more easy.
UI is important, is what I’m trying to say. This needs to be implemented. And if there is no developer, a kickstarter should be organized. I’m pretty sure, money could be raised for this.
Can anyone tell me that how to install this Citus UI in Libre Office?
I am using Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring RingTail)
You can’t install it. It’s just a concept.