https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98885
Bug ID: 98885
Summary: Hyperlink dialog has button which is totally useless
and confusing
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Mac OS X (All)
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_4)
AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.87 Safari/537.36
Build Identifier: LibreOffice 5.2.0.0.alpha0
the hyperlink dialog > Internet tab, has a button with a globe on it. that
button opens a blank page in the default browser. the tooltip says:
"Open web browser, copy an URL, and paste it to Target field."
This is really bad UX and a workflow not used in 2016. Many users will have the
browser open already. If not, just use a launcher or keyboard shortcut. That
button is really awkward. And then it is highly likely users will not type an
URL like:
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=LibreOffice&component=Writer&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&format=guided&buildid=LibreOffice+5.2.0.0.alpha0&additional_info=%5BInformation+automatically+included+from+LibreOffice%5D%0ALocale%3A+en-US%0AModule%3A+TextDocument%0A%5BInformation+guessed+from+browser%5D%0AOS%3A+Mac+OS+X+(All)%0AOS+is+64bit%3A+no&op_sys=Mac+OS+X+(All)
but instead that will come from their browsing path.
Also what about users who take URLs from bibliography software? The button is
assuming every URL is coming from the browser which is plain stupid and not
true.
I am assuming, the button is there, to give the tab a similar look to the other
tabs. But why? I mean form follows function and not vice versa, right? If
there's no good reason for a button, it should not be there. Done.
Thus: please remove that button in the "internet" tab of the hyperlink dialog.
That aside: Target: is a really odd name. Why not use URL: and users will know
what the dialog is asking for.
Reproducible: Always
[Information automatically included from LibreOffice]
Locale: en-US
Module: TextDocument
[Information guessed from browser]
OS: Mac OS X (All)
OS is 64bit: no
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