[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 135501] Change the default UI

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135501

Rizal Muttaqin <riz_17_oke at yahoo.co.id> changed:

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--- Comment #16 from Rizal Muttaqin <riz_17_oke at yahoo.co.id> ---
(In reply to Dieter from comment #11)
> 
> So the strategy "Let's copy MS Word" will never work.


I tend to disagree. We are all know who is the top dog of the office suite
race. LibO is not a clone of MS Office, but in some extent we should look at
what familiar with majority of user. Regarding this case, to provide this two
idealisms (being not a carbon copy to keep our identity/ability or being
conservative or whatsoever reason and also in the same time give familiarity),
a startup dialog for choosing UI IS A MUST. Otherwise, we would loose one of
our idealism. 

So as we discussed in Telegram, Heiko already working on the UI chooser dialog
then we now have choices: 

1. Show user how to access the dialog via Tips of the Day (provide short
explqnation and a link to the dialog) 

2. Show another infobar which provide a link to a dedicated website about how
to choose UI or may be show the page directly after user launch LibO at first
start as Mike Saunder suggested 

3. Show the dialog in the startup (or i.e. in fresh new user profile) as Pedro,
Andreas, John and me suggested 

4. Show an extra UI chooser dialog in the installer as we target Windows user
only as Italo suggested 

The first choice has a clear question: do user really read ToTD message or even
they disable it at first appearance? I have no clue about what majority user
do, but me the latest (since I can show it later again via Help > Tips of The
Day). May be we need a poll for this case. 

For second choice we should consider user with no Internet connection at all,
or may be we can set the page locally? But providing another infobar would make
LibO too bloated as we have already add a button for release note link. 

For third choice Pedro already said his comment the pro and cons but at least
the neeeded for creating another dialog already in progress. 

For fourth choice we should consider may be in the future this traditional
installation method will less relevant as the trend now clearly show many tech
giant including MSFT actively suggest the developers two join in software store
game.

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