[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 102070] Possibility of having a button to change Toolbar Layout near the Update button

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102070

--- Comment #3 from Pedro <vermelhusco1904 at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to steve -_- from comment #1)
> 2 cents incoming:


> I think this is a view option. Having the switcher button would just clutter
> the toolbar.

I  am not saying including it in the toolbar, but next to the Update button
that shows up when an update is available in LO as I've written in the text and
exemplified in the figure.

> LO comes with the option that serves most users needs (the 2 row toolbar).
> If you want to switch, you can do that via the view menubar option (which is
> the correct place for this imo).

My point is that having that option buried in menus will keep it out of sight
of the common users who may not even notice that.

As for the double toolbar serving most user needs, that's besides the point. If
that was the case LO wouldn't be constantly criticized in every release because
of its dated UI. In case you haven't noticed in the past 13 years the
overwhelming majority of Office suite users have been using different UI
paradigms than a double toolbar.

And the UI team has been hard at work in creating and imrpoving three different
UIs for LO.

> As an alternative the option could be in the LO preferneces > View, but
> honestly I prefer the menubar > view.
> 
> The switching process is a one time process that has no need for repeated
> action. Thus I vote against adding this as option to the toolbar.

Why is it a one time process? for you maybe, but what if an user prefers to use
Sidebar in Writer, double toolbar in Calc and Single toolbar in Impress and
wants to change the UI per module?

> I am not sure I understand what the screenshot should be pointing out. It
> would be helpful to mark the section of the screenshot which is relevant to
> this specific bug.

Will do.

What I am asking is the feasibility of creating a button next to the Update
button (which sits on the Menu bar) and separate of the toolbar buttons.
This would achieve the following:
- Make the option to change between toolbar modes easier to reach (less clicks
and more visible),
- Would not site on any of the toolbars.
- Would not be buried in a Menu, so normal users would notice it more.
- It would make the work of the LO UI/Design team more visible to the user and
easier to be toggled on, instead of defaulting to a legacy UI and hiding the
work done by so many people in the past year and a half under a Menu option
(whichmost casual users avoid as much as possible).

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