Difference between revisions of "Platform UI Differences"

Revision as of 09:31, 15 February 2007

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
• ...