Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 17465
Icon feedback, make shading optional
Last modified: 2019-10-06 16:55:35 UTC
In conformance with Ui proposal "Redesign of Toolbars, Menues and Icons" (Fig. 9-12) (http://ui.openoffice.org/proposals/toollbars/Toolbars_And_Menue_Proposal_final.html), the icon feedback has been changed in the current OOo release, so that activated icons now appear colored. I suggest to make this optional, just as flat buttons and other ui-features already are.
Reassigned to Bettina.
I agree that this feature should be made optional, and would also suggest that it is not consistent with the proposal linked above: The proposal suggests a complete replacement for the 'flat' 3D effects with the following properties: the different states are designed to be easily distinguishable; an active button has a prominently coloured border and is highlighted with the same colour at "90% transparency", while the mouseover state draws a border in a different colour and gives the button "a slightly increased saturation" The current design simply lays an extra, non-optional, element on top of the existing buttons (whether or not they are 'flat'); the difference between mouseover and active states can be very unclear, as both use the same colour to highlight (with slightly different transparency values); active buttons are shaded with relatively little transparency, and since the shading colour is taken from OS settings, this can be distractingly prominent While the proposal has not been fully developed, nor has it been visibly superseded; what is there seems to have been well-thought out, whereas the current implementation is suspiciously similar to that in Microsoft Office XP and related products, suggesting a "blind copy" of that UI style. I think work should be undertaken to develop the proposed style, perhaps leaving the user with 4 distinct options: 'bulky 3D', 'flat 3D', 'shading' and 'OpenOffice default'.
This sounds like a waste of time to me. I have followed the discussions about the interface, and I just cannot follow the logic behind. OpenOffice and StarOffice looks much better now, please proceed with the development of vital tasks, so we can have an even more wonderful OpenOffice 2.0! :) Why so concerned about OpenOffice looking more like Windows than other systems... OOo looks great now, now we need to beat MS Office with features, not paintbrushes.
I appreciate that OO 2.0 shall look more modern. But I'm strictly for the option to *disable* the shaded icon background because: 1. The shading is not compliant to GUI standards. I use Win2000 instead of XP, and OOorg 2.0beta is the only program with such a shading, where I can't turn it off. 2. The shading is not ergonomic. Okay, on the first look it seems nice, but after a while of using, it's really straining your eyes. A plain grey background is much more comfortable than the bright white. (Now, you have a dark blue headline, a grey menu line, a bright white toolbar, then again a grey background to the writers's sheet... - too many changes between light and dark) For users coming from OO 1.x, the migration would be easier, too. Think of Mozilla (or Firefox), where you still can choose a Classic-GUI theme - kind of "Netscape 4".
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".
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