39311 – Remove some clutter from LibO Welcome UI

Bug 39311 - Remove some clutter from LibO Welcome UI

Summary: Remove some clutter from LibO Welcome UI

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	LibreOffice
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	UI (show other bugs)
Version: (earliest affected)	3.4.0 release
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	medium minor
Assignee:	Not Assigned

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Keywords:	needsDevEval

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Reported:	2011-07-17 10:56 UTC by Adolfo Jayme Barrientos
Modified:	2015-12-16 22:31 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Description Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 2011-07-17 10:56:36 UTC

The “Welcome” view (Text Document, Spreadsheet, Open, Templates, etc.), has excessive commands, and some of them are not needed at all. Remove the entire “Edit” menu of that view, it isn’t needed there (all options are grayed out, obviously), and maybe the “Standard” toolbar (it only has five options also present in the menus, three activated by default), and the “View” menu (if the toolbar gets removed, this menu will not be needed anymore).

Comment 1 Jeffrey 2011-07-17 18:24:12 UTC

I do not see why this has to be removed. I'm sure the menu bar's being there makes writing the code easier, as the menu bar is consistent across all modules. Unless the menu bar causes confusion or problems, I do not believe that it has to be removed simply because it is not used in the "Welcome" view.

Comment 2 Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 2011-07-17 22:42:16 UTC

I did not mentioned the possibility of removing the menu bar. Just the Edit menu and maybe the Standard toolbar, which are unnecessary IMO.

Comment 3 Björn Michaelsen 2011-12-23 12:25:54 UTC Comment hidden (noise)

[This is an automated message.]
This bug was filed before the changes to Bugzilla on 2011-10-16. Thus it
started right out as NEW without ever being explicitly confirmed. The bug is
changed to state NEEDINFO for this reason. To move this bug from NEEDINFO back
to NEW please check if the bug still persists with the 3.5.0 beta1 or beta2 prereleases.
Details on how to test the 3.5.0 beta1 can be found at:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugHunting_Session_3.5.0.-1

more detail on this bulk operation: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/RFC-Operation-Spamzilla-tp3607474p3607474.html

Comment 4 Thomas Arnhold 2012-06-06 03:21:05 UTC

Fitoschido: Yes you are right, "Edit" isn't useful at this stage and the Standard toolbar functionality is given by the main window and the main menu. Moreover this toolbar isn't enabled by default, so nearly nobody would use this.

Maybe it would be good to discuss it on the ux-advice mailing list. Please do so if you like.

Comment 5 Laurent Balland 2012-12-04 21:21:38 UTC

Hello,

Standard toolbar is useful on welcome view, because it contains the "Load URL" combobox which does not contain the same entries as the Open button.

Comment 6 Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 2013-11-14 16:19:38 UTC

Fixed in master

Comment 7 Robinson Tryon (qubit) 2015-12-16 22:31:20 UTC

Migrating Whiteboard tags to Keywords: (ProposedEasyHack -> needsDevEval)
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