Bug 128933

Summary:	Contextual Single mode with bad spacing and ugly lines; should look the same as Single Toolbar mode
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	josiasmat
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	trivial	CC:	kainz.a, libreoffice-ux-advise, vsfoote
Priority:	medium	Keywords:	needsUXEval
Version:	6.3.0.1 rc
Hardware:	All
OS:	Windows (All)
See Also:	https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125040
Whiteboard:
Crash report or crash signature:		Regression By:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	102062
Attachments:	Screenshot of Contextual Single UI in Writer Screenshot of Single UI in Writer

Description josiasmat 2019-11-21 12:51:02 UTC

Description:
On Windows 10, Contextual Single interface mode is ugly compared to Single Toolbar mode. Single Toolbar looks clean, without lines separating menus and toolbar, and good spacing between them. I suppose Contextual Single should look the same as Single Toolbar, but there spacing between interface elements (menus, toolbar and main area) is bad and there are those horrible lines separating them.

Steps to Reproduce:
On Writer or Draw, go to menu View > User Interface, and select Contextual Single.

Actual Results:
It looks ugly by current UI standards.

Expected Results:
It should look the same as Single Toolbar mode (View > User Interface > Single).


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:

Comment 1 josiasmat 2019-11-21 12:52:07 UTC

Created attachment 155998 [details]
Screenshot of Contextual Single UI in Writer

Comment 2 josiasmat 2019-11-21 12:52:38 UTC

Created attachment 155999 [details]
Screenshot of Single UI in Writer

Comment 3 V Stuart Foote 2019-11-21 14:33:07 UTC

No, all of the Notebook Bar (NB) modes use Glade GTK .ui (aka the project's MUFFIN interface(s)). And like the 'Contextural Single' NB, they all will show an edge between the Menu bar and the NB GUI when the Menu bar is activated. 

Otherwise the NB Glade .UI are designed to be consistent in their spacing for each NB mode. They achieve that--but are not meant to match the legacy toolbars.
 
Simple fact is the XML "legacy" toolbars are more tightly integrated and will appear seamless to the Menu bar.

We currently have bug 125040 for replacement of the XML based 'Single Toolbar' by a more functional hybrid that better renders contextual widget activation.

IMHO => NAB and a => WF

Comment 4 Heiko Tietze 2019-11-21 15:00:59 UTC

Andreas, what do you think?

Comment 5 andreas_k 2019-12-03 11:58:21 UTC

Hi,

ugly is very subjectiv and if you have an look at the other NB layouts it is usefull to have there an separation between menubar and NB. So I'm for wantfix cause otherwise we have to discuss in which NB layout the line should be visible or not.

anyway thanks for the feedback.