All,
I have spent the last couple of days drafting an equivalent appendix for
the 7.0 Calc Guide. Like Peter with Impress, I have found issues with
Calc’s toolbars. They would certainly benefit from a review by the
LibreOffice Design and User Experience team.
I have concluded that at this stage, including such an appendix in the
guide might do more harm than good. Consequently, my current intention
is to progress the 7.0 Calc Guide without a Toolbars appendix.
Some of the issues with Calc’s toolbars are as follows:
1) Some of the toolbars seems to comprise a disparate grouping of
apparently unrelated options. Are they all necessary?
2) Data Streams toolbar. This toolbar provides two buttons, both
greyed out until the "Enable experimental features (may be unstable)"
option is enabled at Tools > Options > LibreOffice > Advanced. Why is
this toolbar available for display if the user has not enabled
experimental features; surely it should be grayed, just like the Data >
Streams option in the Menu bar?
3) The Image toolbar has an option installed which is blank (no
text). Is this correct? What is the purpose of this?
4) The Media Playback toolbar also has an option installed which is
blank (no text) when viewed in its Visible Buttons menu. Rather
surprisingly if you select this nameless option, then a whole series of
controls appear on the toolbar (Play, Pause, Stop, Repeat, Position,
Mute, Volume, etc)!
5) The TSCP Classification toolbar appears unnecessary. I assume that
the action of setting a document’s classification is not something that
will be done frequently – wouldn’t an option in the Menu bar make more
sense to avoid wasting screen space with a little-used option? It seems
odd to me that this option appears to be available only through its own
toolbar.
6) I have not noticed too many spelling and capitalization issues
with Calc’s toolbars. However, I have noticed cases where the name of
the tool installed on the toolbar seems to differ unnecessarily from the
text of the tooltip that appears when hovering the cursor over the tool.
I intend to raise bug reports in Bugzilla to report the issues that I
have found. After they have been progressed, maybe it will be worth
considering again the possible inclusion of the new appendix in the Calc
Guide.
Regards,
Steve
------ Original Message ------
From: "Peter Schofield" <[email protected]>
To: "LibreOffice" <[email protected]>
Sent: 28/08/2020 15:34:55
Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] Impress Guide version 7.0
Appendix B Toolbars for the Impress Guide 7.0 is now the Drafts folder ready
for its 1st review and comment.
Creating this appendix has given me the opinion that toolbars have to be
seriously looked at as to a toolbar’s purpose and usability. I do feel that
some of these toolbars could be deleted. I would like some opinions on this
topic.
Also, tool names should be looked at for correct spelling and capitalisation.
These errors I cannot correct because I have no experience in editing software.
To close with, some of the names given in Visible Buttons list do not match the
actual name given on the toolbar. This definitely needs fixing.
Regards
Peter Schofield
[email protected]
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