As a designer/UI reviewer, I find the default set of gradients in OOo/LibreOffice to be lacking in elegance. They have that '95 look, as if they were meant as a benchmark for colors (squared radial pink to green!?). They generally lack subtlety and a more "professional" look, and, as such, discourage the user from using them at all. They are really not suitable for charts or flowchart boxes. I made a new set of gradients in Tango style, which you can preview here: http://jeff.ecchi.ca/blog/2009/01/05/nicer-openofficeorg-gradients/ You can grab the gradients file here: http://jeff.ecchi.ca/public/standard.sog I would love for this to replace the existing set of default gradients.
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Confirmed, I think it's important to provide good looking default gradients!
@Kendy, @Astron: I just stumbled over this old enhancement request which still is valid. And, what is really important: The reporter has already provided an improved set of default gradients (see link in comment #0) which is IMHO at least much better than the present one and also harmonizes well with the UI changes in LibreOffice 3.6. So please have a look at this report and at the reporter’s suggested new default gradients. Couldn’t we integrate them (maybe with some minor changes) into LibO 3.7? Thank you very much!
Created attachment 66236 [details] Examples of proposed gradients usage I want to support the idea of bug reporter. The current default gradients are ugly and old-fashioned. It would be great to replace them and the set by Jean-François is really awesome. Maybe some colors can be added or slightly changed, but it is applicable right now. Look at the attached example of usage.
(In reply to comment #4) > Created attachment 66236 [details] > Examples of proposed gradients usage @Lekow: Thank you very much for the nice examples! IMHO Lekow’s examples confirm my impression that Jean-François’ gradients set harmonizes very well with our UI changes in LibreOffice 3.6; both go into the directon of an up-to-date, clean and simple, but lucid and vivid design.
Created attachment 80643 [details] Updated gradients palette provided as a git-formatted patch There, someone test and commit this please.
hello design mailing list, ... you don't have a bugzilla account :( hello ux-advise mailing list, there is a patch for gradients attached here. can somebody please review it?
Comment on attachment 80643 [details] Updated gradients palette provided as a git-formatted patch Review of attachment 80643 [details]: ----------------------------------------------------------------- Please commit it already, it has been waiting too much time.
alright pushed the patch to master now in time for 4.2 feature freeze. Jean-François, thanks for the patch; can you please send a license mail to libreoffice@lists.freedesktop.org as described on this page: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Developers#Example_Statement feel free to add an entry for yourself on the page too. also now that i've actually looked what those gradient things looked like before (ewww) - please add some before/after image to the release notes :) https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.2
Jean-François Fortin Tam committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=868103846b9b32bfecd77c08055fdca69d0265c2 fdo#33600 - Better default gradient set The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
This new gradient set is not available for use in background gradients, e.g. when setting a background for a frame or a shape. Can we reopen this bug?
Created attachment 89445 [details] old gradients after the patch
Emir, in a current master build i can not find the old gradients E.g. insert a Frame in Writer, background: new gradients Insert Drawing Shape in Writer, Area: new gradients Insert Drawing Shape in Impress, Area: new gradients please verify if you can still reproduce the old gradients. oh wait, now i remeber: perhaps the gradients are stored in the user profile? ah indeed that seems to be the case ... .config/libreoffice/4/user/config/standard.sog hmm... no idea what to do about that...