https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172275

--- Comment #32 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Steve Forde from comment #30)

First please note:

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173610

in my experience, I can't play with the icon/button sizes in the Tabbed-Compact
UI mode. Does that actually work for you?

Anyway, the situation with the Notebookbar UI modes in general is kind of a tar
pit. You see, implementing a proper multi-tab meta-widget - with
customizability, themeability, sectioning support and all of the other goodies
- is a massive task, and even more so if you want to do it across several
platforms. LO developers have _never undertaken_ this task. The Notebookbar is
a hack, stretching the abilities of traditional top-of-dialog tabs as far as
the developers can. It was never fully mature code; and frankly, I personally
would probably not have added it to releases at all. But - it has been
released, and now the developer have to struggle with a mechanism that
apparently cannot support what we would want it to do. So they can get some
feature or functionality at the expense of others.

This is doubly the case of the NBB modes other than NBB Tabbed. They're really
a "maybe it'll work for you" kind of a feature. So the consideration you bring
up was not on our minds (well, the developers minds mostly but I am also
responsible as I did not object) when NBB customizability was on the chopping
block. But I will ask you this: Do you believe there is a significant number of
people who, due to visual impairment, prefer Tabbed Compact with large icons,
over Menus+Toolbars and NBB Tabbed ? Even if those two modes have their icons
enlarged as well?

(In reply to Steve Forde from comment #31)
> Silly question, no doubt, but why not make ALL the tabs work as "standard
> toolbars" that can be fully customised? If you can do it for one "special
> tab", why not all of them?

That's a good question. That is, forget NBB Tabbed, where the customization has
to be richer than for a toolbar. Can we not treat the tabs of Tabbed-Compact as
though they were toolbars, w.r.t. customization? Even if it were a kludge like
prefixing their names so that they can be edited using the toolbar
customization dialgo - that would already help Steve.

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