Most tool bar buttons are useless
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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LibreOffice |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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libreoffice (Ubuntu) |
Opinion
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Most tool bar buttons are never or rarely used.
Only frequently used buttons shall be shown by default. And only when it is not more intuitive than the right click menu, like when copying and pasting or per object action.
The status bar can also be hidden in some of these applications, the same as the sidebar contracted by default.
Here are some suggested defaults:
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Good interface design shows what is currently in use in that very moment, or used constantly. And gets rid of everything else.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: libreoffice (not installed)
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-35-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Apr 21 15:05:57 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-11-14 (159 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
description: | updated |
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description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in df-libreoffice: | |
importance: | Unknown → Wishlist |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in df-libreoffice: | |
status: | New → Invalid |
Changed in df-libreoffice: | |
importance: | Unknown → Wishlist |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in libreoffice (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Opinion |
Created attachment 116691
single toolbar
This was an enhancement that i had previously brought to a design meeting in November 2014 after working on it and posting it in redmine ( https:/ /redmine. documentfoundat ion.org/ boards/ 1/topics/ 529 ).
The single toolbar concept can be found in apps like Google Docs and IBM Symphony and it provides a simplified set of highly used toolbar buttons so that the document can take up the majority of the screen and let users focus on creating their documents.
Details of how IBM Symphony achieved this single toolbar mode can be found in this redmine thread ( https:/ /redmine. documentfoundat ion.org/ boards/ 1/topics/ 163 ).