OpenOffice.org Dashboard Concept

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The Welcome Screen introduced in OOo 3.0 can be extended to provide lots of important user functionality. At the same time, it can be designed and architected in a modular way that will make OOo feel much more "web2.0" and modern to our users. I propose renaming it the "OpenOffice.org Dashboard" to indicate how much it has been expanded.

I have developed the mockup shown below with the following design goals in mind: 1. Feels more like a web browser, which everyone is comfortable with. 2. Local and web search: get from Google. Get paid for it, like Firefox does. 3. Tabs are not 100% required for this Dashboard, but without them it would be very difficult to return to the Dashboard. And we need tabs anyway. 4. The central area of the page lets users add their own Google Gadgets, as Spicebird (www.spicebird.com) has pioneered. Preload several good ones. 5. Inspired by Google Chrome and Spicebird and KDE social desktop ideas.

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