[Libreoffice-ux-advise] EasyHack proposals

[Mirek M.]

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Mirek M. <mazelm at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi everyone,
> It'd be good to finally get working on LibreOffice's UI, which tends to be the most criticized part of LibreOffice.
> Below are some suggestions for EasyHacks -- please respond whether they fit under the scope of EasyHacks and, if so, whether you'd like to mentor any.
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> Styles preview: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59718
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> Borders not drawn correctly: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59718
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> Icon labels: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60412
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> Responsive Layout: https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60414
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> Page toolbar and page selection (could be split into two easyhacks): https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60416

Separate page toolbar bug:
https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61080
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> Allow navigation by hyperlink: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52116
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> Navigator: display hyperlinks in order of appearance: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52115
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> Navigation buttons can't be assigned a hotkey: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51401
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> I haven't had time to produce bug reports for the following, will do so soon, but here are quick descriptions:
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> Animation sidebar: move „Add“, „Change“, „Remove“, "Play", "Up", and "Down" to an icon-based toolbar at the bottom of the animation list, remove the "Slide show" button.
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> Make the styles drop-down preview all formatting, including capitalization.
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> "Optional Hidden Items Menu" and "Style menus": described on https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:Mirek2#UI_Hacks

Here are some additional EasyHacks, stemming from my discussion with Kendy:
Right-aligned toolbars:
https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60893
Minimum width for scroll bars:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58748
Making combo boxes into drop-down buttons:
https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61004
Sizing toolbar combo boxes and dropdown buttons based on icon size:
https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61005