https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61914
Priority: medium
Bug ID: 61914
Assignee: [email protected]
Summary: Tweak the new template manager to act as a start
center
Severity: enhancement
Classification: Unclassified
OS: All
Reporter: [email protected]
Hardware: Other
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Version: unspecified
Component: UI
Product: LibreOffice
Considering that current start center lacks the functionality of showing recent
document previews, and uses pretty much excess screen space (in most cases
users mostly maximise the start center window), I thought it would be a cool
idea to tweak the new template manager with the functionality of being able to
show previews of recent documents, some basic marketing stuff like a small LO
logo and implement it as the new start center.
Speaking as a Mac user, both iWork and MS Office uses this approach - although
Office application shortcuts directly open the main window, iWork tends to
display a template/recent documents screen every time an iWork application
opens. In these windows it is possible to select pre-defined templates and
select recent documents from a drop-down menu. What LibreOffice could do is,
adding recent document previews (though it would be better to add an option to
disable previews) and placing LO components' shortcuts would be great.
With this approach users will be able to directly select a template and start
their work. And on the other hand I am not sure having a start center with lots
of excess screen space usage and less functionality looks professional enough.
IMHO splash screen is enough to "notify" the user that LibreOffice software is
starting.
The next step would be deactivating the loading progress bar at the bottom of
the window, and replace it with something inside the template manager or
displaying a smaller one, like the old "Firefox is installing the updates and
will launch shortly" type of dialog.
1. Pages Start Center: http://imgur.com/eOtXYPS,XZWONJS
2. Numbers Start Center: http://imgur.com/itI6uvS
3. Keynote Start Center: http://imgur.com/olRbw80
4. Powerpoint Start Center: http://imgur.com/sUSKHlF
The reason that neither iWork nor MS Office has one unified application startup
system, above windows are all mostly concentrated on selecting templates. But
Libreoffice would do a better job by unifying both application startups and
templates in the same, small, elegant window.
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