On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 9:58 PM, Jay Lozier <[email protected]> wrote:
> In general I agree that some of the buttons are used less frequently and > that many users may not realize what they do. Parallel to your ideas is are > there buttons that should be displayed that currently are not displayed? I don't think right now that any toolbar button should be added, but maybe some functionality. It would be nice if there was a way to easily create a table of contents (currently much too hidden in the menus) - could be added to the 'Apply Style' menu at the bottom. Adding page numbers to the footer or header is to complicated too. For example Close is one button I like to have on my tool bar. Cleaning up > and deleting rarely used buttons and replacing them with more useful ones > is a good topic to explore. I suspect there will some disagreement about > which buttons are relatively useless and should be replaced, personally I > would keep the table button. > Writer has currently too many buttons and therefore they should be dramatic reduced. One or two new icons would be IMHO okay, but don't refill the whole cleaned-up space. I think the typical button layout borrows heavily from earlier programs > from as far back as the 80's and buttons these programs displayed. > Truthfully, I do not know how much good research has been done on this > topic or even if there really was any research done in the beginning. > o0 > Typically I will add buttons I want to the tool bars, rarely will I delete > any of the default buttons. Also, I prefer using the small size because I > can have more buttons displayed on the tool bar (possibly another topic). > Reducing the icon size more than a few pixels is a no-go, there are hell of a lot of people out there having problems to target small UI elements -> http://goo.gl/6Lqvh Regards Thibaut -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
