[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 #13 from John Mills <jmills59 at yahoo.com> ---
Hello Heiko, hello Stuart,

Thank you for the consideration of this enhancement request, I understand that
you have set the status to 'RESOLVED WONTFIX.' I understand your logic behind
this, so this will be the last comment I make to this enhancement request as it
appears the decision is now final.

@ Heike : You wrote above:

> Use case of the tabbed NB is to make users coming from Windows feel home not not improve learnability as it's the fact for the "Contextual Group" variant.

Thank you for this, I think it is clear from this statement that the primary
intention of the Tabbed notebook bar interface is to be familiar to users
coming from Microsoft Office, to make the transition to LibreOffice a little
easier for them. 

Please take a moment to look at the screenshot that I have attached to this
ticket. As you can see Microsoft office has had descriptions underneath their
respective section of the 'Ribbon' interface. This has been consistent for 14
years since Microsoft office 2007 was introduced at the end of 2006.

These are not there for no reason, the designers understood that this helped
their users. The primary reason I raised this request is not about
discoverability, although that clearly is very important in the context of a
complex piece of software such as LibreOffice.

The primary reason I raised the request is precisely for the reason that you
stated. That is to make the transition for ex Microsoft Office users to
LibreOffice considerably easier. The tabbed NB although superficially similar
is not functionally equivalent because it does not aid the user in the manner
that Microsoft Office does, i.e. support the usability of the interface.

In the future if you want to encourage users to migrate away from Microsoft
Office to LibreOffice with the NB tabbed interface then it is advisable to
understand why these descriptions are important to the working of the interface
and have remained so for 14 years.

I want to finally say that I care deeply about the goals of the DF and the
LibreOffice application and hence moving people from priority applications that
do not respect their liberty. If it was not so then I would not spend my time
writing these requests here. So once again thank you and the whole of the LO
community on the hard work of providing software that fulfills an essential
need.

With best regards,

John Mills

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