https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167248
Bug ID: 167248
Summary: UX: The purpose of the new “Toolbars” dialogue could
be made more clear
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 26.2.0.0 alpha0+ master
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: LibreOffice
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Description:
The new "Toolbars" dialogue offers multiple choices at once, but the user may
not quickly understand that. I was looking for where the new feature is, and
for quite a while I didn't recognize it. (Yes, I'm slow--but I suppose I'm not
the only one.)
After all, there’s already a “Toolbars” item in the main menu, and it pulls up
a list to choose from that looks the same. So how is the new “Toolbars” menu
different from that one? A user like me may be slow to catch on.
So perhaps the "Toolbars" button could be labeled "Toolbars (multiple choice)".
That would make the purpose of the dialogue at once clear.
An alternative way to handle this would be to put an instruction within the
toolbar dialogue itself:
Here you can select or unselect multiple toolbars.
☐ 3D Settings
☐ Align Objects
☐ [Etc.]
Of course, one could do both: rename the button and add the instruction. (The
more clarity, the better.)
Steps to Reproduce:
1.In the main menu, click on "Views" and then "User Interface."
2.
3.
Actual Results:
The button for the "Toolbars" feature is labeled "Toolbars". But I was slow to
see that this was where I could choose *multiple* toolbars.
Expected Results:
Clearer communication of what the "Toolbars" dialogue is for.
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: Yes
Additional Info:
Version: 26.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 33560caa34a6532fb27641c19d7cc3bb4dc33057
CPU threads: 16; OS: Linux 6.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
There may be documentation I should have seen that's related to this issue But
if so I couldn't find it.
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