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KOffice GUI Competition Winner

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the community-makes-it-better dept.

Boudewijn Rempt writes "The KOffice GUI Competition has been won by Martin Pfeiffer. His entry was chosen from eighteen submissions by the jury because of its innovative, ground-breaking approach to workflow and document handling. Many submitters broke away from the beaten path and explored wild and wonderful ideas. The results page also has all submitted entries available for review."

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  1. sombody forgot the users by idlake · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There may be some useful ideas in there, but for a document proposing the future direction of a major piece of existing software goes, this is laughable: there are no references to user studies, feedback, or other kind of user-centered design in there; all this is based on is looking at Microsoft Office and a bit of navel gazing.

  2. Re:If only... by Slashcrunch · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I totally agree. I avoid Gnome apps whenever I can for this exact reason. The File Chooser is absolutely shocking! I prefer the KDE File Chooser by far. Usually I type paths and filenames, with the aid of autocompletion. When I'm lazy I can point and click easily, and it just isn't a chore! Compared to the Gnome File Chooser... well, there is not comparison IMHO.

    The Gnome File Chooser is what ticks me off about using Firefox. I wish I could use Firefox with the KDE's instead.