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− | + | | '''Location'''<br> ''Where the menu is located'' || System wide menu in the top of the screen. Contents of the menu depend on which is the active window || In the top of the application window || In the top of the application window | |
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+ | | '''Icons''' || No icons in the menu || No icons in the menu || typically(?) icons in the menu | ||
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− | + | | '''Preferences'''<br> ''Where the settings are located and what they are called'' || '''Preferences...''' in the Apple -menu (system wide menu item), accessible with CMD-, || '''Options''' in Tools -menu?? || '''Preferences...''' in Edit -menu | |
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− | + | | '''Shaping'''<br> ''text strings to glyphs'' || ATSUI<br>''not fully implemented'' || ATSUI via Pango<br>''a pango shaping engine'' || ATSUI? | |
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+ | | '''Rendering'''<br> ''Glyphs to screen/print'' || ATSUI<br>''not fully implemented'' || ATSUI via Cairo<br>''cairo_show_glyphs'' || ATSUI? | ||
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+ | | '''Metrics'''<br> ''font analysis and information, also font substitution'' || ?? || ATS via Pango, font substitution not implemented || ?? | ||
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+ | ! style="background:#abcdef;" colspan="4" | Main Loop integration | ||
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Revision as of 16:36, 22 February 2007
Contents
Contributors
- Mox Soini: Mox
Introduction and History
This page is still a stub. Will fill later
Complementary and Related projects
The possible future UI Layout work is complementary and not overlapping with:
- UI Layout
- Graphics Rendering re-work: OOo Canvas
- UNO Runtime environment
- ODF Toolkit and
- OOo Runner Separate Apps on Mac OS X
Goals
Document the differences in Platform specific UIs (e.g. Aqua/Mac OS X, Aero/Vista, Gnome/Linux, KDE/Linux Win32/Windows XP).
The focus is in stuff expressed in GUI guidelines (e.g. Aqua HIG, Aero xxx, Gnome UI SG,...) and stuff that is standard or preferred way of doing things, as exemplified by high quality applications on each platform (e.g. Apple Pages (iWork) on Mac OS X, MS Word (Vista Office), Abiword on Gnome)
Differences
The following lists the typical applications used on various platforms and the comparison screenshots from OpenOffice.org. The aim is to show that while there are similarities in these platform-specific applications, and much of the actual functionality is quite similar, the actual UI (i.e. how you accomplish those functions) has differences both on surface and in deeper levels.
Stuff to add (Mac OS X):
- no icons in the system-wide menu (application menu)
- ok/cancel buttons: ok on the right side
- "preferences" on the Apple menu, not elsewhere
- no highlight (i.e no visual change) on mouse-over in toolbar
- no 3D-effect on (main) toolbar (= no borders in buttons)
- ...
Mac OS X (Aqua) | Windows Vista (Aero) | Gnome Linux | |
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Application Menu | |||
Location Where the menu is located |
System wide menu in the top of the screen. Contents of the menu depend on which is the active window | In the top of the application window | In the top of the application window |
Icons | No icons in the menu | No icons in the menu | typically(?) icons in the menu |
Preferences Where the settings are located and what they are called |
Preferences... in the Apple -menu (system wide menu item), accessible with CMD-, | Options in Tools -menu?? | Preferences... in Edit -menu |
Shaping text strings to glyphs |
ATSUI not fully implemented |
ATSUI via Pango a pango shaping engine |
ATSUI? |
Rendering Glyphs to screen/print |
ATSUI not fully implemented |
ATSUI via Cairo cairo_show_glyphs |
ATSUI? |
Metrics font analysis and information, also font substitution |
?? | ATS via Pango, font substitution not implemented | ?? |
Main Loop integration |