[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 84350] Creation of a shapes drop down group button

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84350

--- Comment #6 from Jay Philips <philipz85 at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> I'm happy with the current Drawing toolbar. I only dislike, that in Writer
> and Calc not all shapes can be added to this toolbar.

Some may prefer the Drawing toolbar as it is, so maybe its best to leave the
toolbar as is, but that doesnt negate the benefit of having a single shape
group button for users who prefer it. Yes while i was writing the description,
i did notice that 2 button (line ending in arrow, connector drop down) were
missing in writer.

> There exists about 160 predefined shapes. For me it would be no improvement
> to put them into one pane in a drop-down menu. In addition, you will loose
> the ability to let a sub-toolbar flow. If you really want to show them all
> at once, why not extend the already existing pane in the sidebar?

Another of the benefits of the single drop down, is that users with smaller
screen sizes wont need to have the drawing toolbar open and taking up space.
Didnt quite get what 'let a sub-toolbar flow' meant. It might be good to also
propose a drawing sidebar pane, but this bug relates to the toolbars.

> When you compare Draw with other applications, you should compare it with
> other vector graphic processor applications, having such an amount of
> predefined shapes.

This bug was primarily targetting Writer, as all the comparisons images were
taken from alternative word processor applications.

> The drawing toolbar does not only contain shapes but a lot of tools for
> manipulating the shapes. If you remove the shapes, the need for the drawing
> toolbar remains.

If we take the largest drawing toolbar which is available in Draw, it contains
13 shape buttons, 2 textbox buttons, 2 point related buttons which open up
their own toolbars, 2 image related buttons (insert image and image gallery),
and 2 other buttons (fontwork gallery, extrusion on/off). So there is a total
of 21 buttons with more than half of them (62%) related to shapes, including
the 2 image buttons that are redundant (insert image is in the standard toolbar
and image gallery is in the already visible sidebar).
The drawing toolbar has 13

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