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

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

--- Comment #12 from V Stuart Foote <vsfoote at libreoffice.org> ---
(In reply to John Mills from comment #9)

> I would suggest that instead of just modifying the tabbed compact view to
> increase the spaces between icons and sections that we try and "broadly"
> replicate what Microsoft have done with their ribbon. Notice how the use of
> popular functions are added.

@John, "There you go again...", I have no objection to the UI design ethos
supported with WinUI 2/WinUI 3 API. What I have exceptional objection to is the
nonsense that LibreOffice is well served by efforts to '"broadly" replicate' 
facsimile of it using GTK+ Glade assemblages of UNO controls.

Until, and only if, we adopt some functional cross-platform UI widget that
replicates function I will continue to object to the project putting more
design and especially dev effort into GTK+ based UI assemblages--chasing
unrealistic parody of MS or Apple delivered native code features.  Mimicry is
just that.

Simply would be far better for project health and maintenance to strip MUFFIN
out and return to fully implemented cross-platform menu, toolbar and dialog
model augmented by the Sidebar framework.

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