Overlord, I take it you're a power user. Customization is fun, and can be valuable in creating an efficient work-flow in specialized cases. That being said, I don't think it's reasonable to expect most users to have to customize their software. Instead, designers need make interfaces that optimize such things as: ease-of-use, ease-of-learning, efficiency, number of features, and user control for the vast amount of users. This is why duplicate controls are bad, because they make the software harder to learn and understand. As a result, we need to be making decisions about which UI elements are available by default, and which are hidden.
I agree, however, that the sidebar needs to change, and we can learn from the mock-up you linked. Did you see the rough mock-up I posted earlier? Here it is. <http://imgur.com/a/suDhH> It's not pretty, but I think it could serve as an inspiration for what a good LibreOffice UI could look like. Daniel. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/The-Sidebar-Problem-tp4094331p4105027.html Sent from the Design mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe 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
