With my marketing hat on: I believe the solution is not to try to make infobars thinner or try to space out the nags, but rather to combine those calls-to-action into one infobar (that is deferred if needed, to not be shown at the same time as the read-only document infobar).
Infobars (at least in GTK) can have multiple action buttons, and the "Get involved" and "Donate" actions should be only one thing: "Contribute", pointing to a unified web landing page that takes care both of the "contribute by donating money" and "contribute by volunteering" scenarios. No need to make those separate messages. As such, if you're going to nag every user on every new release, then my recommendation would be a single nag infobar like this: > Welcome to LibreOffice XYZ! Discover what's new in this version, and help us future versions! [ Read the Release Notes] [ Contribute ] [X] Clicking the buttons other than X would not close the infobar, that way they can click both buttons. If you show three nags one after another (even on separate startups) instead, then you're just frustration-conditioning the user to close/dismiss anything shown there, and your nags lose their effectiveness. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1949291 Title: LibreOffice has started displaying a donation nag Status in LibreOffice: Confirmed Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: I just opened up a spreadsheet (technically a CSV file, but who's counting), to discover LibreOffice displaying an eye-catching blue "Your donations support our worldwide community." banner just below the toolbars and about a toolbar and a half tall. This irritating nag is apparently supposed to display every 90 to 180 days with no in-application means to disable it permanently, and there's apparently also a "Help us make LibreOffice even better!" banner that can appear too. According to this blog post... https://www.remembertheusers.com/2019/11/0580-libreoffice-nag- notices.html ...it is not responsive to configuration overrides within the user profile and the only apparent solution that doesn't require patching the source and rebuilding is to create a file containing the following markup in `$BASEDIR/share/registry` (`/usr/lib/libreoffice/share/registry` as installed by the Ubuntu package): <?xml version="1.0"?> <oor:data xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; xmlns:oor="http://openoffice.org/2001/registry";> <dependency file="main" /> <oor:component-data xmlns:install="http://openoffice.org/2004/installation"; oor:name="Setup" oor:package="org.openoffice"> <node oor:name="Product"> <prop oor:name="LastTimeGetInvolvedShown" oor:op="fuse" oor:finalized="true"> <value>0</value> </prop> <prop oor:name="LastTimeDonateShown" oor:op="fuse" oor:finalized="true"> <value>0</value> </prop> </node> </oor:component-data> </oor:data> Regardless of how it's achieved, I think it's tasteless, irritating, and probably doesn't give a very good image to any office customers Ubuntu may have downstream for random employees to be receiving nag banners like that in IT-installed software. Please consider patching it out or otherwise ensuring it never triggers in distro-provided builds of LibreOffice. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: libreoffice 1:6.4.7-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-37.41~20.04.2-generic 5.11.22 Uname: Linux 5.11.0-37-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.21 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: skip CurrentDesktop: KDE Date: Sun Oct 31 04:32:03 2021 SourcePackage: libreoffice UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/df-libreoffice/+bug/1949291/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
