[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 136174] Enhancement: Font drop down in toolbar in Impress

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

--- Comment #4 from herk at tutanota.com ---
A small update: it's super wonderful to see people making an effort in response
to my little rant. In fact, Telesto's workaround of using the tabbed user
interface solved my problem very satisfactorily. It was especially good for me
because not only the font options appeared, but also buttons like font size,
text colour and font options (bold, italic).

I suppose the spirit of my complaint / enhancement request is that the basic
options were too difficult to find, while complex functions took centre stage. 
For the average user, the basic functions need to be within reach and clearly
visible, while they will not need most of the fancy functions.

Therefore, might I add this suggestion: instead of defaulting to a difficult
user interface and leaving it up to the inexperienced users to look around for
basic functions (like font changes) or a basic interface (tabbed), why not turn
it around? Make the tabbed interface the default and let the experienced user
find the option to expand it to more complicated functionality (the current
default look). In my mind this solution makes more sense than keeping this
behaviour and trying to fit a font menu somewhere among the buttons (@Heiko
Tietze).

@Maxim Monastirsky, thank you for your reply, this worked as well, even though
I must say that a more intuitive design philosophy would place the most used
buttons left, and the less used buttons right. It does not make sense to me
that the font menu is all the way to the right and disappears when not working
in full screen, but one of the first options is a range of shapes which I
rarely use.

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