[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 135501] Change the default UI (see comment 67)

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

--- Comment #102 from Pedro <vermelhusco1904 at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to PeeWee from comment #95)
> Being a serious user of LibreOffice, I believe that changing the default UI
> from Standard to Notebookbar would be detrimental to users’ experience of a
> very good office software package. The Standard UI is very similar to other
> office software packages, so a new user to LibreOffice would have no problem
> in getting to grips with LibreOffice.

I assume you haven't used other office suites in the past 15 years, because
since then every LibreOffice alternative uses a tabbed UI similar to the Ribbon
UI from MS Office. Furthermore, the users whose experience you want to defend
actually do have problems in adapting from a Ribbon UI to the Standard Toolbar.
Just go to any comment section of a LibO release to notice that.

The Standard UI is a fossil from a different computing era.

> I find that ALL the UI variants that are available for LibreOffice are not
> as good as the Standard UI. With writing the user guides for Impress and
> Draw, I had to check the UI variants for one of the chapters. Not impressed.
> 
> Standard UI is the best.

Could you please provide input and feedback on how to improve the Tabbed UI
then?
I would assume that someone from the documentation team wouldn't want to change
from the Standard UI because then you would have increased work to re-write the
documentation. Thus I do understand why you would consider it best. 
Not best for the users of office suites though.

And I write this, knowing full well that the Tabbed UI still isn't ready to be
the default while it does not support extensions among other blockers.
Also, the Notebookbar is the framework to develop different UI variants. The
Tabbed UI is the one we are talking about here.

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