Sidebar Proposal by IBM
From Apache OpenOffice Wiki
Revision as of 07:48, 26 August 2009 by Maliinchina (Talk | contribs)
|
---|
Quick Navigation
Team |
Please do not edit this page unless you are the original author. Your feedback and comments are welcome in the Comments section below or on the ui@ux.openoffice.org mailing list. |
Design Proposal -- Sidebar -- By IBM
The following design proposal is part of the collection of design proposals for “Accessing Functionality”, which is part of Project Renaissance.
Summary
We propose a sidebar way to organize the commands/UI entries on OpenOffice.org UI.
|
Benefit:
|
Mockups
Sidebar
- The panels can be docked to the side of editing area.
- Users can switch between the panels by the tab beside the panels.
- We use Properties panel to put most of frequently used properties.
The properties panel on sidebar
- There are some sub-panles on preperties panel. E.g. Text, Paragraph, Table, Area, Line, Graphic, Cell Appearance, Number Format, Master Page, Page Layout, Template, etc...
- The properties panel will show different sub-panels for different context. E.g. When users are editing texts, the sub-panels like Text and Paragraph will be shown. When users focus on a slide, the sub-panels of Slide Layout, Template, and Master Page will be shown there.
- So in most contexts, users don't need to switch between panels manually.