[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 134481] Add control grouping "labeling" to NB Tabbed Interface

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134481

--- Comment #7 from John Mills <jmills59 at yahoo.com> ---
Hello Stuart,

Thank you for your response, I believe I understand your position clearer now.  

I would just like to clarify a point that you wrote:

'Beyond what is provided in the Groupedbar NB mode already, what you request
would require additional dev effort to extend the framework, and also design &
documentation work to populate the "contextual" details of the NB groups.'

I don't believe (please correct me if I am mistaken)that I am asking for
anything beyond what currently exists in the contextual groups interface, at
least technically. The proposal is simply that the height of the tabbed
interface is increased by an appropriate amount for a label to be under the
individual sections of the 'tab' thereby indicating that the icons in that
section are contextually related to aid discoverability. The divisions would
work similarly to those in the Contextual groups interface or the
Groupbar(although there are clear differences of approach here)interface. In
both of these UI interfaces the icons are grouped contextually to aid with task
completion.

Regarding your previous comments about Glade, I certainly am not qualified to
agree or disagree. Hence why in my previous post I indicated that the label in
the tabbed interface should be added if technically feasible to do so. Having
spoken to some of the design team members in the IRC channel I think that the
proposal would have some support. 

I would envision the contextual details being similar to those found in
Microsoft office as the broad breakdown of the tabbed interface is not too
dissimilar if you compare them.


'You are of course welcome to implement to extend the framework.'

As a non programmer how does one go about supporting this effort? I have seen
this request relatively frequently in Reddit postings for LO, when Mike
Saunders was asked this question it was stated that there is no real mechanism
for individuals as the majority of LibreOffice development work is conducted by
'ecosystem' partners.

With best regards

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