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KSysGuard: The Green Paper
tl;dr; This blog post summarizes requirements for KDE system monitor and presents a couple of mockups to initiate the discussion at the KDE forums. Introduction Recently, we asked about your...
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KSysGuard: What are your requirements from a system monitor?
KSysGuard has been attributed as visually outdated and suboptimal in respect to its functionality. The competitors do have beautiful layouts that makes it easy to grasp the system state at a glance....
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Spring break for the KDE system monitor
Recently there was a request on the forums to update KSysGuard. The dialog looks outdated and not appealing, from the user perspective. From the usability POV there are several flaws too. First of all...
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Libreoffice Design Session: Inserting a Chart
Probably everyone working with Libreoffice Calc is using charts. And maybe some wondered why the dialog to insert a chart has a wizard-like workflow for all the less relevant options. But inserting a...
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Libreoffice Design Session: Shapes
Libreoffice Draw was treated somewhat novercally in last time. But we didn’t forget it and started to pimp its look and feel. This design session was about moving the stencils from the shapes toolbar...
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Help to find better metaphors
When I talk to people about our quest to make KDE Activities work, one of the things I hear most often is: “I never really understood what they are!”. There are several reasons for that, a very obvious...
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Libreoffice Design Session: Special Character
The Libreoffice UX team discussed possible improvements for the dialog to insert special characters, in particular the feature of recently used items. But today we have more than one solution since the...
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Libreoffice Design Session: CMIS Improvement
Topic of last week’s Libreoffice design session was the integration of content management interoperability services (CMIS). Here is the outcome of this meeting. Topic: CMIS Improvement Bug...
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Libreoffice Design Session: Entries at Indexes and Tables
The Libreoffice UX team started last week with another type of meeting, the design session. The goal is to discuss one issue in detail along with possible solutions, mostly a mockup. This includes a...
View ArticleDiscuss the Future of Activities and Virtual Desktops
It has been quite some time since we asked you to share your experiences with Virtual Desktops and Activities. Meanwhile we have been thinking through the enormous amount of feedback you provided. It...
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Tracking changes with Libreoffice
Introduction Track changes is an essential feature that separates word processors from simple text editors. While change tracking is rather a collaboration tool, as it allows multiple users to make...
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Rapid UI development for TrustBridge
Last year we teamed up with Intevation to create interfaces and interactions for TrustBridge. TrustBridge is a secure root certificate installer for Windows and Linux, contracted by the German Federal...
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How to make Libreoffice Customization usable
Introduction Over the last couple of month we mooted diverse changes for the toolbar in order to update it according the usual workflow. For instance, we discussed the inclusion of Copy and Paste into...
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How people utilize Libreoffice Impress
In the last couple of weeks, we have run surveys for Writer and Calc in order to gather user feedback on optimizations we were making to the toolbar and applications. So here are the results of our...
View ArticleWhy do(n’t) you use Activities?
With the great response on our first discussion on Virtual Desktops, we would now like to move the focus to Activities. While Virtual Desktops are a well settled concept, mostly driven by the technical...
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Using the Kano method to prioritize requirements
KGet is the download manager of KDE. As part of the current porting to the KF5 frameworks its functionality was taken under verification. In an online survey users were asked about their opinions,...
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What people think about KGet
KGet is a versatile and user-friendly download manager. It has a lot of useful features and was designed to work well with Plasma and other KDE applications. KGet has a long history in KDE, the first...
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How do you use Libreoffice Impress?
As discussed in the recent postings about Writer and Calc, Libreoffice’s default toolbars haven’t been changed in 9 years, since OpenOffice 2.0. Our goal is to update Libreoffice’s default toolbars by...
View ArticlePlease participate in a survey about KDE’s download manager KGet
KGet is a versatile and user-friendly download manager. It has a lot of useful features and was designed to work well with Plasma and other KDE applications. KGet has a long history in KDE, the first...
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Results of survey about Libreoffice Calc’s toolbar configuration
Our goal is to unclutter the toolbars from functions that are rarely used and to add those that are more frequently used. In order to verify improvements that we were making to Libreoffice Calc’s we...
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