[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 131182] new menu item: DOCUMENT, or a new sub-menu item FILES / Outline (enhancement, development)

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131182

Adolfo Jayme <fitojb at ubuntu.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEEDINFO                    |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |WONTFIX

--- Comment #6 from Adolfo Jayme <fitojb at ubuntu.com> ---
I’ll go ahead and mark this as WONTFIX for a reason I will state in a moment,
and with this action I don’t mean to imply that we do not welcome UX
suggestions — rather the opposite! But you should weigh the consequences of
making any changes to menus, and those are an increasingly painful weight put
on the shoulders of documentation writers and translators, all of whom are
volunteers who gain nothing from the extra effort to update their content to
reflect endless UI changes. Also, users themselves are affected in that they
are forced to re-learn where things are in each release.

In the past we had a contributor, J. P., who implemented many menu changes in a
very rapid pace, without giving a real chance to others in the documentation
and l10n teams to give input. Since he was met with little friction, he went on
like this for a few releases. Now we have sizable problems in updating
now-obsolete help strings (since he didn’t bother with it and discrepancies
were only noticed individually by bug reporters afterwards), and translators
(some of them like me, polyglots who work on several languages, and in many
cases in charge only by themselves of the whole translation to their languages)
had to deal with the fallout. I, personally, haven’t been able to again
complete to 100% the help translations to Spanish and Asturian since then, and
a few years have passed! Do you see the problem now?

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