[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 158541] simplify start-center document selection

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158541

--- Comment #6 from Buovjaga <ilmari.lauhakangas at libreoffice.org> ---
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #2)
> Making an "on mouse over" document selection from the SC thumbnail views
> would then be at odds with UI behavior on Menus and Toolbars and anywhere
> else we have preselection highlights.

Selected state for buttons usually indicates some feature has been activated
and this can be true for multiple ones (Bold, Italic, Underline...). So the
interaction with buttons is quite different from the Start Center thumbnails.
Buttons are almost ten times smaller than the thumbnails, so the dual highlight
effect in Start Center might appear as jarring to some users in comparison.

Similarly, menus have a unique behaviour: if you click to open a menu and then
hover over other menu items of the same level, the opened state will
immediately switch to the hovered one. So compared to buttons, menus behave
more like how steve envisions Start Center thumbnails should behave.

In bug 158404 comment 20 I asked:

(In reply to Buovjaga from comment #20)
> Created attachment 191112 [details]
> Screen recording of Start Center behaviour with patch making hover equal to
> selection
> 
> As we still only have the argument of uniformity, I would be interested in
> hearing what is the problem with the behaviour shown in this video.
> 
> Stuart: can you explain what is bad/annoying based on the video?

I'm still interested in hearing about the badness.

I made a Reddit poll that ran for 5 days and the result was 4 votes for the
current behaviour and 7 votes for steve's proposal:
https://www.reddit.com/r/libreoffice/comments/187p7l3/which_hover_interaction_in_libreoffice_start/

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