https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169214
--- Comment #6 from Telesto <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #5) > > So some would say focus the limited resources on Ribbon. > > Our bug reports are not the allocation of resources. Here, we say what can > and should be done, not when or in what order. (We have an importance field > for that, although that's not used.) The resource allocation is implicitly assessed in any enhancement request, IMHO. Not consistently, though. The list of possible enhancements is in principle endless. Maybe even as expert setting, if we want to be geeky. You need some demarcation criterium. Is it useful having a bug/enhancement idea's floating around as nice to have but realistically not gonna happen in lets say next 50 years. At which point it might be superfluous after all. Everything might be done by AI or different UI design because everybody using VR. There is already 'lack' of direction regarding user interface styles. LibreOffice ships various user interface styles; giving users a choice (upside). The downside: * lack of focus resulting we do all of them, but most are not feature complete/ polished or maintained/ tested. So don't meet end-user expectations (based on comparison with other apps) * complexity; having multiple UI's requires a lot more documentation, testing, maintaining etc * impurity's in design. So a flaw in Tabbed UI being presented as non-issue (trivial) because other UI elements cover this aspect (sidebar/menubar). You can't deny, but it's not the point. If opt for Ribbon you want the complete experience. So might be trivial functional, major from point of a proper Ribbon experience. I would be unable to prioritize it. Which perspective should be preferred? Luckily, prioritization doesn't matter around here anyhow as it doesn't move any faster generally speaking. My default lead time maybe 10 years from now; and even that is rather optimistic * Multi interface styles generate an additional conundrum regarding prioritization. So the Ribbon User Interface is (also) developed as replacement for crowded menu's. So improving the menu is a waste of effort from Ribbon/Tabbed UI users perspective. The likely want time (resources) being spend on making the Ribbon shine > > B) I spoke to soon. LibreOffice does have a case which can do this already > > in some sense. File -> New opens a new document without selecting the type > > of document. > > Actually - no, that's not the behavior of File > New ; it opens a submenu, > and that's it. I can Left Click "New" in the main drop down, with navigating the submenu to open a new Writer document (assuming using Writer). At least on macOS -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
