[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 80838] Meta: enhancing Writer's print preview toolbar

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80838

--- Comment #6 from Mirek2 <mazelm at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> I have worked on a revamped print preview toolbar for writer and have
> attached mockup previews of what it can look like. As there is alot of space
> available in the toolbar, i would recommend going for the text based mockup.
> If some space is needs to be removed, then the word 'Double' can be changed
> to 'Twin' and the word 'Previous' can be shrunk to 'Prev'.

It's generally bad practice to shorten labels like this, as the clarity of the
original label may be lost ("twin" is pushing it a bit) and as they advantage a
single language only -- "twin" might be longer than "double" in a different
language and it might be hard for translators to deduce what "prev means".

Also keep in mind that whether a toolbar can fit depends on the window size --
a toolbar might seem small to you on a widescreen laptop, but it might not fit
on a screen of a netbook.

Fortunately, thanks to last year's GSoC project, we can choose to show only
some icon labels in a toolbar. We should choose only those where the icons
aren't clear -- "Full Screen" and "Close Preview" seem like good candidates.
It'd be better to keep the entire "Close Preview" label, as "Close" is too
vague. (One might think it's referring to closing the document rather than
exiting preview mode.)

As for the arrangement of icons, I can't judge which is better. Since I don't
use the mode at all, I'll trust that you know what you're doing.

> I have used my usage of Adobe Reader and Okular as inspiration for this
> mockup, using functionality that is already present in LibreOffice, so that
> additional work is kept to a minimum.
> 
> As i know some may be wondering why the print button was removed from the
> mockup toolbar, and the reason for that is that there is a print button
> still available in the standard toolbar and print is also available in the
> File menu and also with Ctrl+P. The print button will still be retained in
> the toolbar as the first button, but will be hidden by default.

Great.
(I'd be in favor of removing it from the toolbar completely, btw.)

> In order for this mockup to become a reality, i have already started
> submitting enhancement bugs including:
> 
> 1) Bug 80651 - addition of a single page button
> 2) Bug 80654 - addition of a close button icon
> 3) Bug 80657 - addition of navigator page number field
> 4) Bug 80758 - having unnamed icons in a toolbar set to icons & text
> 
> Going beyond what is necessary to achieve the mockup, i'd like to suggest
> that the toolbar be centered whenver its activated, and that the text 'Next'
> and 'End' be positioned to the left of their icons.

I was hoping to have a centered alignment option for toolbars and I talked
about it with Kendy, but it seems like the VCL toolbar code is too much of a
hassle to deal with. AFAIK, only right-aligned toolbars are technically
feasible right now.

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