Hi :) Hopefully 'just' teething problems that will be ironed out fairly quickly, inshalla.
Were you able to follow the route; Tools - Options - Advanced - Expert and then search for relevant options to get the main top menu back again? Regards from a Tom :) On 6 July 2018 at 15:43, Graham Luffrum <grhmlf...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is all very well, but on my system (6.0.5.2 under Linux Mint 18.1) the > settings icon does not work which means that I can get back to the default > only by changing the Notebooktoolbar settings. Also the menubar is not > shown by default - again this requires changes to the Notebooktoolbar > settings. > > Graham > > > On Fri, 6 Jul 2018 at 09:24, M Henri Day <mhenri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Den tors 5 juli 2018 kl 14:39 skrev Philip Jackson < > > philip.jack...@nordnet.fr>: > > > > > I tried the Notebookbar after looking at the Fedora article. It worked > > > just as advertised and I managed to return to default using the '3 > small > > > horizontal lines' icon on the rhs of the ribbon. I was using LO > 6.0.0.2 > > > (I think) > > > > > > I wasn't impressed by the Notebookbar - it seems to be variations on a > > > theme started by MS some years ago and immediately followed by some > > > other software houses just like it was the fashion of the day. The > > > introduction of the ribbon by Avid Sibelius raised howls of protest > from > > > the veteran users of Sibelius - but that's just because we're mostly > > > very conservative and don't like change. > > > > > > Yesterday, I upgraded LO to 6.0.5.2 and took the opportunity to recheck > > > Notebookbar. Out of the 6 variants, the first 2 'Contextual Groups' and > > > 'Contextual Simple' don't show the little icon. The next 2 variants, > > > 'Tabbed' and 'Tabbed Compact' do show the icon. > > > > > > The last two, 'Grouped bar full' and 'Group bar compact' don't show the > > > icon BUT they do have an item at the far right called 'Menu' which has > a > > > drop down which allows you to toggle on the Menu Bar - and to select > > > the different variants of Notebookbar. > > > > > > The number of combinations seem to be numerous. I may have missed a > > > combination but it seemed to me that although I could turn off the > > > regular MenuBar in the Grouped Bar full and compact variants, it still > > > appeared in the 2 tabbed variants. > > > > > > This ribbon seems good to pass away a few spare minutes. For a new > user, > > > it may provide something of interest but I think I'll stay with the old > > > menu bar. > > > > > > Philip > > > > > > <snip> > > > > Agree with Philip above about retaining the old toolbar layout - one > could, > > of course, learn the «ribbon», but why bother - especially when it is > more > > complicated to use and doesn't seem to provide any advantages. But I do > > think it's worthwhile experimenting with and it's easy to get back to the > > default toolbar layout, så long as the menubar is shown (which it is by > > defautl ; if one doesn't see it in the ribbon view, click the settings > icon > > (the three horizontal lines) at the upper right and check the > alternative)) > > just click there on View → Toolbar Layout and choose Default.... > > > > Henri > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > > Problems? > > https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > > Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ > Netiquette > > List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > > Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to- > unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
