https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87684
--- Comment #6 from Andy <[email protected]> --- Of course the prevailing opinion has to ..... prevail, so I won't take it to the streets to protest this. However let me add just one note: one of the things all M$ Office users admire and appreciate when they see me using LO is the vast and uncluttered work area; as you probably know just as well as I do, M$ Office standard interface (which is left as it is by 98% of users just out of laziness) has lately become so cluttered with big menus object etc. that you have the ridicolous situation where, unless you have a retina resolution screen, you can just see a dozens lines of cells of you spreadsheet or, in the same way, you write something in Word and can look at no more than a few lines if text at a time. This is made even worse by the present days screens who tend to be extremely "landscape", while most workflows like writing or using data on a spreadsheet are really "vertically intensive" affairs. For example, the right side tools now available in LO and OO are a perfectly rational solution to this absurdity - and moreover, they are completely optional. On the contrary, forcing the user to give up some further space in the vertical dimension, as it happens here, is IMHO a much less smart move. By the way, a similar change was made a few years ago in Impress, where the five tabs (normal, structure, etc) for slide display modes could have been easily put together with the horizontal scrollbar (even more than in Calc, since they are fixed in number and size and occupy just a fraction of the line where they are), but take instead their own space which is an empty and totally unused part of the UI (see attachment to clarify, space circled in red). I notified that as well at the time, but if was declined in the same way. UI design is a really important part of an app, and I am no professional of course on this topic; however I feel that having some space in it which is empty and an unavoidable part of it is not really smart in general. I thank you for the attention anyway! -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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