[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 135501] Change the default UI

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135501

--- Comment #35 from Luke Kendall <luke.kendall at gmail.com> ---
- I'd like to propose a new UI element that makes the UI choice visible the
user.
E.g. a short coloured bar with the name of the UI style, which they can click
on to see the list of available UI styles and choose between them.

- A one-off choice during installation or startup isn't as good as that because
the user may not be aware of what choice they're making at that point, and may
not know how to alter that choice after that.

- I wasn't aware there were different UI styles to select between.
If the UI suddenly changed to a different style, without my choice, I would be
annoyed.
Being able to easily switch between UI styles would remove that annoyance.

- Being able to easily see that there were different styles and switch between
them to try them out would encourage me to experiment.

- Accidentally clicking on something that changed the whole UI when I wasn't
expecting it would make me panic and try to work out how to undo whatever it
was I'd accidentally done.

- I'd like to observe that making features discoverable is a good thing.

- I suggest that for people updating from an already-installed version to a new
one, keeping the UI setting to the same as they had is best - especially if
they can be told that other options are available for them to try out.

- For people who are installing LO for the first time, I think you're on safer
ground to install a UI of a new style that you wish to promote (because you
think it's better).

- As for treating MS Office UI as the gold standard, I have a lot of experience
in UX and UI design and creation, and when they introduced the Ribbon there was
a lot of deserved push back. Even after using it for years, I couldn't see any
real improvement it brought. However, with years of use it does become more
familiar.

- Having learned from this bug report that alternative UIs exist, it seems a
strong UI/UX feature and you could consider making that fact more discoverable
through the UI and easier for users to try out and experiment with, which
brings me back to my very first point.

(That's my two cents.)

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