Design/Whiteboards/Start Center

Summary
Redesign the LibreOffice Start Center.

Discussion

 * GSOC Ideas: "Use Widget Layout for the Start Center (completed GSoC 2013)"
 * UX-Advise ML: "Use Widget Layout for the Start Center"
 * Design meeting: "2013-11-06"
 * Design ML call for input: "Start Center"
 * Design meeting: "2013-11-10"
 * Design ML: "Welcome screen LO 4.2"
 * UX-Advise ML: "Startcenter greeting text"
 * Design meeting: "2013-11-24"
 * Design ML call for input for next Design meeting: "Controversial topics for the start center"
 * Design ML call for input for next Design meeting: "Controversial topics for the start center"

Relevant Art

 * iWork Pages start screen
 * Gnome Documents whiteboard

Controversial Topics
This section lists the controversial topics linked to the start center and the pros and cons for each topic. Decisions on these topics have been reached on our IRC chat.

Sidebar Positioning
Decision: Keep it on the left for LTR locales, have it on the right for RTL locales.

Icons or Thumbnails
Decision: Use thumbnails, but indicate file type using colors or badges. (To be designed.)

Tooltips and Labels

 * Whether thumbnail or icon, must have complete document name and type available as Tooltip for a11y accessibility. Also, should implement at least a two line file names and truncate but include last 8 char for longer file names--as in the Gnome Documents design. Vsfoote (talk)

Decision: Show the full file path (including extension) in a tooltip, have 2-line labels as described in the comment above.

File Type Tabs
Decision: As we only have 25 recent documents max, filters aren't needed.

Sidebar Button Names
Decision: Create Writer Text Document (or simply Writer Document, if Writer Text Document is too long in some languages), Calc Spreadsheet, Impress Presentation, Draw Drawing, Math Formula, Base Database

Greeting
Decision: ''Welcome to LibreOffice. Use the sidebar to open or create a file.''