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− | ! style="width:100px;" | !! style="background:#59e;width: | + | ! style="width:100px;" | !! style="background:#59e;width:220px;" | Mac OS X (Aqua) !! style="background:#59e;width:220px;" | Windows Vista (Aero) !! style="background:#59e;width:220px;" | Ubuntu Gnome Linux |
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! style="background:#abcdef;" colspan="4" | Application Menu | ! style="background:#abcdef;" colspan="4" | Application Menu | ||
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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 | + | | '''Location'''<br> ''Where the menu is located'' || http://mox.fidisk.fi/opensource/UI/differences/aqua-menu.png <br><br>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 | + | | '''Icons''' || http://mox.fidisk.fi/opensource/UI/differences/aqua-menu-no-icons.png <br><br>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 | + | | '''Preferences'''<br> ''Where the settings are located and what they are called'' || http://mox.fidisk.fi/opensource/UI/differences/aqua-menu-preferences.png <br><br>'''Preferences...''' in the Apple -menu (system wide menu item), accessible with CMD-, || '''Options...''' in Tools -menu?? || '''Preferences''' in Edit -menu |
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! style="background:#abcdef;" colspan="4" | Toolbars | ! style="background:#abcdef;" colspan="4" | Toolbars | ||
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− | | '''Icons'''<br> ''The default setting'' || a few biggish icons with text underneath || a few icons || a few biggish icons with text underneath | + | | '''Icons'''<br> ''The default setting'' || [http://mox.fidisk.fi/opensource/UI/differences/aqua-toolbar.png http://mox.fidisk.fi/opensource/UI/differences/aqua-toolbar-tn.png] <br><br>a few biggish icons with text underneath || a few icons || a few biggish icons with text underneath |
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− | | '''Customization'''<br> ''How the toolbars are customized'' || Main toolbars are customizable through right clicking, selecting '''Customize...''' and then drag-and-dropping. ''Much of the toolbar functionality in'' '''Inspector''' ''-tool instead.'' || '''Customize...''' in Tools -menu, also from toolbars. Shows a dialog. || Not editable / occasionally the same style as Mac OS X. ''NOTE: Also in Mozilla applications'' | + | | '''Customization'''<br> ''How the toolbars are customized'' || [http://mox.fidisk.fi/opensource/UI/differences/aqua-toolbar-customize.png http://mox.fidisk.fi/opensource/UI/differences/aqua-toolbar-customize-tn.png] <br><br>Main toolbars are customizable through right clicking, selecting '''Customize...''' and then drag-and-dropping. ''Much of the toolbar functionality in'' '''Inspector''' ''-tool instead.'' || '''Customize...''' in Tools -menu, also from toolbars. Shows a dialog. || Not editable / occasionally the same style as Mac OS X. ''NOTE: Also in Mozilla applications'' |
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− | | '''Style'''<br> ''What the toolbar icons/buttons look like'' || '''No 3D | + | | '''Style'''<br> ''What the toolbar icons/buttons look like'' || '''No surrounding 3D "button" around the icon''', colors used sparingly, as few metaphors as possible. Icons are slightly "lifted" on top of the surface. || ??? || No button borders, richer colors, icons in 3D perspective |
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| '''Highlight'''<br> ''What the toolbar icons/buttons look like, when clicked'' || '''No highlight''' ''No visual change in the button'' || '''Light-bulb highlight''' ''buttons look like they are shining'' || Highlights with dark color to show the full button area | | '''Highlight'''<br> ''What the toolbar icons/buttons look like, when clicked'' || '''No highlight''' ''No visual change in the button'' || '''Light-bulb highlight''' ''buttons look like they are shining'' || Highlights with dark color to show the full button area |
Revision as of 21:34, 2 March 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):
- ok/cancel buttons: ok on the right side
- ...