https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148121
Bug ID: 148121
Summary: Let me save and load custom or default User Interface
UI layout variants.
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: UI
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Description:
I would like a new feature where “View -> User Interface...” lets me
create and save my own custom UI variants. There are a few reasons for this:
Even though each User Interface autosaves its most recent toolbar
arrangement, I don’t feel like I’m “saving and restoring *my* UI”. I still
instinctively think of the options listed as pre-made setups from the
LibreOffice design team.
In Draw, I accidentally created an excellent vertical UI while set to
the “sidebar” user interface. Now I have to remember that Writer and Calc’s
“Sidebar” is good for horizontal displays, but Draw’s “Sidebar” is good for my
vertical monitor. If I could save my Draw layout to a custom named UI variant,
it would simplify getting to a layout that I know “just works” for me.
It took a lot of trial and error to figure out LibreOffice’s UI, and
these experiments essentially destroyed the Standard UI in Writer. I am forced
to use Notebookbar or Sidebar, or spend extra time piecing Writer’s Standard UI
back together. For this reason, I believe the default layouts (Like Tabbed and
GroupedBar) should fully reset the UI to default, rather than remember a user’s
modifications.
In order to make a full reset like this possible, LibreOffice’s default
toolbars should not be editable. Attempting to edit a default Toolbar should
prompt the user to “save as” a new toolbar with a new name. It would be like
using a Template file.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Activate the Menu Bar if it is not visible.
2. Choose View
3. From the View dropdown, choose User Interface...
4. Select a UI variant from the list provided.
Actual Results:
In the Select Your Preferred User Interface dialog box, there are 7 UI variants
to choose from. The current User Interface is automatically customized whenever
a change is made by the user.
Expected Results:
The 7 UI variants listed should act as defaults.
When a user decides to switch to a new UI, a prompt should appear asking if
they want to save their current UI with options Save, Save as, Don't Save, and
Cancel.
If the current UI was a premade UI, the Save button will be grayed out, forcing
the user to save their layout as a new variant. Otherwise, clicking Save will
overwrite any changes they made to the custom UI they were using.
If the user selects Save As, a text box will appear prompting for a layout name
and an optional description.
Choosing Don't Save will discard any UI changes made since the last save.
Choosing Cancel will keep the user on their current UI layout instead of
switching to a new layout.
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: No
Additional Info:
There should be a way to save your current layout or duplicate a custom layout
without switching to a new layout.
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