[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 136174] New: Enhancement request: Font change

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136174

            Bug ID: 136174
           Summary: Enhancement request: Font change
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 6.4.4.2 release
          Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
                OS: Linux (All)
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: minor
          Priority: medium
         Component: Impress
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: herk at tutanota.com

Dear libreoffice developers,

Thanks for your time and effort invested to make this product - it's an
important goal to have free and available software and I can't really go
without it. However, this morning I got so frustrated I went and wrote this
request.

In libreoffice impress, I couldn't find the single most basic option of any
text editor: changing the font. It is for good reason that every other program
has it somewhere in plain view, from GIMP to Word to Canva to email clients, as
hiding the option seriously breaks the user's workflow. Read about my journey
to finding the option:
I hovered over the nameless icons which only some of them are obvious - saving,
loading, print, etc. The rest are too uncommon to know by heart. I googled it
to no avail, as all pages only mentioned standard font instead of just the
font. The reason that this is the only result that comes up, is because no
other program necessitates googling this question.
I clicked on the help button to search the documentation, but found nothing.
Finally, it turns out that I needed to click format, then either styles, or
character. I had to read all entries of multiple tabs before this stood out to
me. Whoever would think of doing this? How is any of this intuitive? How can
you invest so much time in functionality and end up completely disregarding an
easy and seamless user experience? If the basic functionality is not obvious,
it makes me want to quit a program right that instant. Can you imagine how
stupid and like a waste of time it feels when you have to look for the font
change option - then have to search multiple places to no avail - then finally
find it tucked away among complicated options?

Please introduce the basic text editing options back into the top bar of
Impress. Some things just have to work. Thanks for reading.

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