https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169214
Bug ID: 169214
Summary: Support menu items/rows which have both an item and a
submenu
Product: LibreOffice
Version: Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Keywords: needsUXEval
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: UI
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Blocks: 85811
At the moment, our menus have three kinds of items (or rows):
1. Commands
2. Submenus
3. Separators
I suggest that we introduce a fourth kind, which combines (1.) and (2.): A menu
item which is itself a clickable, executable, command, but whose side has the
arrow which would expand into a sub-menu - but only if you click that part of
the menu row would you get the side-menu expanded.
This would be the equivalent of a toolbar menubutton: You can just click it for
the default action, or expand it by clicking the arrow on the side (or the
bottom) to get options, or variants of the action.
My motivation for suggesting this is that I notice multiple cases of a set of
related commands (or commands-and-submenus), which is big enough to merit
having a submenu, but one of them is more common than all the others, so much
so that you don't want to put it in a submenu.
Examples: Writer's File menu. We have:
Save, Save As..., Save Remote..., Save a Copy..., Save all
that's more than enough to put in a submenu, especially as we're about to get
two new items on the File.. menu: Compare Documents and Merge Documents (see
bug 167404). But - obviously, we can't relegate _Save_ to a submenu, right?
That would be quite inconvenient. So - let's have a Save command-cum-submenu
then. We would save 4 spots on the File menu and not lose the easy access to
the common Save action.
Another example: Writer, File menu, New... submenu. Here, we've already put
stuff in a submenu. But - the more common New action is a new empty document,
without a template, of the module we're in. Right now, this requires Three
clicks: File > New > Text Document. If we made 'New' into a
command-with-submenu, that would become two clicks.
A third example, similar to the second: Writer, Edit menu, Paste Special. The
common action is paste as unformatted text - which would be the command in a
command-with-submenu row. (A more complex behavior would be setting the command
to the last-used submenu command - in which case we would get the last kind of
special paste used, accessible with just two clicks; but let's not go that far
with this bug).
Referenced Bugs:
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85811
[Bug 85811] [META] Main menu bar bugs and enhancements
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