[Bug 166894] LibreOffice Writer (Tabbed Compact) – Interface Redesign

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166894

--- Comment #10 from John Mills <jmills59 at yahoo.com> ---
(In reply to andriimuzhytskyi from comment #7)
> Hi, this is my design for an updated Tabbed Compact. I tried to keep the
> original architecture while reducing visual noise and emphasizing the most
> important elements. I referred to the documentation at
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/uk. 
> Since implementation isn’t possible under the current conditions, I don’t
> think it makes sense to go into further detail.

(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #6)
> (In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #5)
> > (In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #3)
> >> Sorry, but totally unrealistic. Project has no path to implement and we are
> >> limited to use of GTK+ and Glade based UI layout.
> >> ... adopting native Qt widgets cross platform, at which point...
> 
> > 
> > Stuart, if someone back in 2012 would file a bug saying that we need a
> > tabbed UI mode, you might have raised similar objections. Not to belittle
> > the implementation challenges, but - if people believe that this is a
> > worthwhile design and of superior usability, then even if it is far from
> > realization, it would serve as a future target, motivating potential work on
> > widgets and libraries. After all, we are shipping the tabbed UI despite not
> > having a library similar to the MS Ribbon API (and despite many shortcomings
> > and bugs in what we do have).
> 
> Just stating facts! Spamming BZ with open RFEs and leaving unrealistic
> requests floating about does nothing to focus dev and community interest in
> moving the project forward or completing needed functionality.
> 
> IMHO this remains a -1, either from design or as a UX issue.

Stuart, this person is trying to work on and improve the tabbed compact layout,
your opinion on if this proposal is a a -1 for design of UX issue is somewhat
immaterial. It is well known your personal disdain for the Microsoft UI, this
bias is not helpful for those that prefer to use it.

If there is a significant technical impediment that prevents this redesign or
an approximation then that is one thing, to dismiss on anything else id
subjective.  This proposal to me looks about improving the layout to look more
"modern" it uses different icons and slight layout changes.

The proposals on slide 2 of the PDF document seem like valid improvements to
me. If this can be done (or even partly) with the current limitations of the
Glade assemblies then I only see this as a benefit to our users.

so a big +1 for me.

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