User:Michelr/LibreOfficeNewUX

Summary
Design proposal of a new UX for LibreOffice by Michel Renon.

Please note that I suppose that the Sidebar (developed by IBM for Lotus Symphony) is already included.

You can see it in Apache OpenOffice 4 : File:OpenOffice 4.0-pre Writer.png

View Panel




The variation of the first solution is detailed here :
 * User:Michelr/ImpressShortTermModifications
 * and User:Michelr/ImpressMidTermModifications





One important idea is to handle multiple selection : ex of use case :
 * user search "all images" in search panel (with a popup 'type')
 * he selects all of them with a single checkbox
 * in the content view, he can see them selected (with zooming, scrolling)
 * then, in the sidebar, he can change the anchor property for all images in one click

Style edit
My idea is to provide :
 * maximum consistency : use the same tools/widgets to modify content or styles
 * avoid modal dialog
 * preview of styles in current document



TBD : how can we handle undoing style changes ?
 * add a "cancel" button in the infobar ? (the infobar then behaves just like a modal dialog)
 * just let the user select "Undo" from "Edit" menu ?