https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166924
Bug ID: 166924
Summary: add a visual preview dropdown widget to the
notebookbar
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 25.2.4.3 release
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: UI
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Description:
If you open the Animate tab in PowerPoint then you would find a really nice
preview widget which shows large icons for various animation effects available.
this preview widget expands as a popup showing even more (> 4 times) options.
In LibreOffice we have a preview widget on the writer notebookbar, but that
doesn't expand and has only a limited number of styles, for the rest the user
has to use the treeview on the sidebar which in my opinion is bad UX.
It gets even worst in Impress where all the animation and effects functionality
is located on the sidebar as "text" like "Appear", "Fly In", "Venetian
Blinds"... I don't know what "Venetian Blinds" means, and the only why to know
is by clicking on it.
So the workflow is like this
1. from the category dropdown, choose the type of animation like "entrance" or
"exit".
2. click on the "+ Add" button to add that animation.
3. then from the "Effect: " list, choose an effect.
4. repeat it for the rest of the animations.
It's not creative, and I consider it one of the major reasons why people call
the UI "old" or "dated". It's not just about impress and animations, styles
should also be available in a really nice preview, not a treeview, in all the
modules.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enable the Notebookbar UI from Menu > View > User Interface ... > Tabbed
2. Open all the modules one by one and compare with MSO.
Actual Results:
-
Expected Results:
For users with any experience of using "MSO", the expectation would be to have
more visual controls and less "button/treeview click and find-out workflow".
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: Yes
Additional Info:
Version: 25.2.3.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 520(Build:2)
CPU threads: 32; OS: Linux 6.12; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
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