[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 153525] Styles Preview should be able to show a grid of list styles (Tabbed UI)

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153525

--- Comment #8 from Pedro <vermelhusco1904 at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #5)
> (In reply to Rafael Lima from comment #4)
> > I respect your opinion, but if we follow this line of thinking, than the
> > Styles Preview (from the Tabbed UI) should not have been implemented in the
> > first place. 
> 
> I've said as much ;-)
> 
> > The fact that we also have this functionality in the sidebar is
> > not a reason to not improve the Styles Preview in the Tabbed UI.
> > 
> 
> Maybe. Or, we could just dump the NB Tabbed UI... it is not and never can be
> fully functional--so we just disappoint MS Office users.
> 
> > My argument is that the current implementation is very limited and I
> > honestly don't know what use case it serves for. The current Styles Preview
> > is not good for discovering and applying styles, so this is why I resort to
> > the sidebar to apply styles.
> > 
> 
> > The Styles sidebar is really good and I believe we should also have a good
> > implementation of the Styles Preview for Tabbed UI users. 
> 
> Guess we could simply provide a "more..." and just open the Stylist (i.e.
> <F11> pop open the SB deck).
> 
> > Since we already have this widget in the Tabbed UI, we should seek to improve > it and offer a complete experience. 
> 
> Why?  The 3 column grid and scrollbar exposes the previews. Otherwise <F11>
> launches the full treeview listing in the SB Styles deck.

Here you are again advocating for removing a feature that an enormous number of
people use, and that other contributors spent hundreds of hours working on with
the tools available just because it wounds your aesthetics. The Tabbed UI
should NEVER be removed. Learn to adapt to the times.
It's been 15 years that such an UI paradigm has been implemented in Office
suits.

You have hundreds of millions of people that never even worked with a
menu-based Office suite, and LibO NEEDS to cater to these people and adjust to
the times.
If you want to remove the current implementation, then by all means DEVELOP a
new Tabbed UI or move on. 
You complain that it should be shelved because it has limitations. Here's a bug
advocating to address one of those limitations and you are against fixing it.
This flies in the face of all your previous arguments and just shows that most
of them are bad faith arguments against the Tabbed UI. If you don't like it,
DON'T USE IT. Nobody is forcing you to. Why do you want to force your
preference on others???

As for this bug:
+1 for Rafael Lima's request.

Infinity -1 to removing the Tabbed UI.

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