https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91990
--- Comment #15 from V Stuart Foote <[email protected]> --- Created attachment 119943 --> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=119943&action=edit The LibreOffice StartCenter as initially implemented by TDF (In reply to steve -_- from comment #12) > ... but I really don't understand why the UI we use to show those two > options differs from the way the other selection options are shown. Let's > unify that and show help and extension in the same way. That would be incorrect as within our GUI we make, and have always made, distinction in functional use. We identify, and graphically represent, Primary actions as compared to Secondary actions within the GUI using icon/button size and positional placement of elements. Current handling in the GTKwidget .UI based StartCenter descends from our legacy SO/OOo functional design of the StartCenter as can be seen in the screen clip from the LO 3.3.0.4 release. There the indicated area holds secondary action buttons to: Get more templates Add new features Get more information Note the size of the icons and that their position is removed from the Primary elements. As the StartCenter was moved to .UI based GTK widget packing, while reworking it we continued to distinguish a secondary role for the Help | Extensions button widgets. Also, we don't assign a GtkImage for an icon--and instead just label the buttons--maintaining their secondary role in the GUI. Implementing Thumbnail Views from Template manager backingwindow as a way to render a preview of the document in the StartCenter has provided a new Primary action, but the functional GUI remains conceptually unchanged. Other than that--our handling of the StartCenter and its functional roles has evolved in a consistent fashion--respectful of legacy design, despite being completely refactored in code. I understand your suggestion, but don't see it as necessary during usage to "interpreting" the GUI. If anything making the change suggested--bringing all Start Center widget actions into the same vertical "button bar" would be confusing for users. Re-sizing and adjusting the packing of the button widgets to place Help and Extensions as equal in importance to the other Create buttons would give them emphasis in usage they do not merit. Yes, they are necessary to the completeness of the GUI, and so should not be removed--but they are not functionally equivalent in importance to the other GUI elements on the StartCenter. Their diminutive size, lack of icon, and positioning apart are appropriate to the UX. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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