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Rather than making a bunch of new button icons, the existing ones could be batch-converted to monochrome, and made able to draw in the color schemes.
Rather than making a bunch of new button icons, the existing ones could be batch-converted to monochrome, and made able to draw in the color schemes.
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Some might not want the different buttons and colors, etc. It can be customizable. This is about freedom.
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Some might not want the different buttons and colors, etc. It can be customizable. This is about freedom
. Unlike Calligra, LibreOffice has the ability to throw enough resources at this complicated problem that you hopefully won't end up shipping something that people don't like! I am not sure I could live with a sidebar for Writer, but I'd like to try
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One big question is whether to use PyGtk or WxPython or whatever. WxPython's stable branch doesn't support Python 3, although there is the [http://wiki.wxpython.org/ProjectPhoenix Phoenix project]. It seems not to matter too much what is used for experiments, but PyGtk seems to have [http://www.daa.com.au/pipermail/pygtk/2013-February/thread.html little activity], and less features. If the experiment lives beyond the first few months, it will be worth thinking about
this topic
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One big question is whether to use PyGtk or WxPython or whatever. WxPython's stable branch doesn't support Python 3, although there is the [http://wiki.wxpython.org/ProjectPhoenix Phoenix project]. It seems not to matter too much what is used for experiments, but PyGtk seems to have [http://www.daa.com.au/pipermail/pygtk/2013-February/thread.html little activity], and less features. If the experiment lives beyond the first few months, it will be worth thinking about.
Another issue is how to build and deliver this large and complicated experiment so that users can easily try it out.
Another issue is how to build and deliver this large and complicated experiment so that users can easily try it out.
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Another topic how this relates to the new Android UIs that people are thinking about. Having played with QuickOffice on my tablet, which has about 5% of LibreOffice features, a full UI is not necessary to be relevant. Their first 5% could be built from scratch from a headless version, but not this.