[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 117463] Create a Dialog that shows up on first boot of Writer/Calc/Impress for the user to pick its default UI

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117463

--- Comment #16 from V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote at utsa.edu> ---
(In reply to Rizal Muttaqin from comment #15)

> From what I see in many comments/discussions in many places in the Internet,
> many people does not aware this options while they complains no Ribbon UI in
> LibO.
> 

Please, we do not have a Ribbon UI and we never will, we have MUFFIN and one of
its features is the 'Notebook Bar' in one of its UI implementations. And we
expect/hope to additional MUFFIN function -- notably tabbed documents (bug
33173) and a multi-document interface (MDI) (bug 37134), with our existing "New
Window" multi-window document view getting some love, and a mode for better
side-by-side.

> 
> Honestly I dont get it what is the point of maintanaibility, we can say
> harshly many LibO elements are not maintained. We can count broken function
> here and there and no dev has interest to fix them (see G Drive for example
> which many user expected to use or HTML export from Impress/Draw that nobody
> use).
> 

That is part of my concern, features get taken to a certain point and
development stalls, or the feature just rots away--e.g. review the history for
the 'Navigation Toolbar' (bug 115817 - GSoC 2009). Or the 'Visual Editor' mode
of the sm Math module (bug 88744 - GSoC 2010).  How would you write internal UI
to guide a user to configure those features?

> This dialog would be a more added value to tell user about what we have in
> the UI/UX far away then let me say (with all due respect to the creator)
> Tips of the Day dialog.

Not really, a pop-up dialog or entries on the Warning bar can never be an
adequate substitute for documenting the rich set of UI features in an active
(on-line or local) contextual help system. Supplemented by TDF's well authored
Guide books and topic specific guides, e.g. Bruce Byfields 'Designing with
LibreOffice'. 

Restoring the <ahelp> tag function to the "New Help" (bug 118148) would allow
targeted/contextual tip based help. We do not "need" a bloated dialog/wizard
for  guided configuration of the UI.

> 
> So my take is 1000+ to this feature request.

No sorry, it just does not fit/belong in the UI.

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