Bug 142829

Summary:	Make a new top-level "About" menu item in the menu bar
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Max L. <mleonov>
Component:	LibreOffice	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	libreoffice-ux-advise, rb.henschel, vsfoote
Priority:	medium	Keywords:	needsUXEval
Version:	7.1.3.2 release
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
See Also:	https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142828
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Description Max L. 2021-06-12 21:53:24 UTC

Description:
UX Rationale : Currently there is the top-level menu entry "Help" that contains 10-12 menu items, and six of them are not about help - this is confusing and user-unfriendly, and help is a critical menu for LibreOffice to succeed.
TASKS:
1. Add a top-level "About" menu item to the right of the new "Bugs" menu item.
2. In the new top-level "About" item put the following four submenu items from the current "Help" menu:
2.a > "About LibreOffice"
2.b > "License Information"
2.c > "Donate to LibreOffice"
2.d > "Get Involved"

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Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



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Comment 1 V Stuart Foote 2021-06-12 22:07:31 UTC

-1

Comment 2 Regina Henschel 2021-06-12 22:19:58 UTC

-1
It is common practice to have "About" in the Help menu. Examine e.g.: Paint.net, VCL Media Player, TeamViewer, Google Chrome, SeaMonkey, Coral PaintShopPro.

Comment 3 Max L. 2021-06-12 22:21:21 UTC

See proposed, closely related UI/UX improvements:

Develop a new bug-reporting functionality and a new top-level "Bugs" menu item in the menu bar
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142831

Split the current "Help" menu into three separate top-level menus (instead of one) to separate help content, bug-reporting content, and 'about' content.
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142830

Make a new menu out of the globe icon ("Check for Updates")
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142828

Comment 4 Mike Kaganski 2021-06-12 22:26:01 UTC

-1 (to all four closely related UI/UX improvements)

Comment 5 Max L. 2021-06-12 22:38:39 UTC

(In reply to Regina Henschel from comment #2)
> -1
> It is common practice to have "About" in the Help menu. Examine e.g.:
> Paint.net, VCL Media Player, TeamViewer, Google Chrome, SeaMonkey, Coral
> PaintShopPro.

1. This isn't about the "About" menu, this is about cleaning up the "Help" menu.
2. You mentioned Google Chrome - Chrome's Help menu only has 3 submenu items, whereas LibreOffice has 12 - exactly the reason why some submenu items should be moved elsewhere.
2. Google Chrome is a browser and VLC Media Player is a media player - those applications have significantly lower everyday use of features compared to LibreOffice, which has a lot of features in its menus, and whose success relies on its users knowing how to use many of those features to produce work-level content.

Comment 6 V Stuart Foote 2021-06-12 23:11:15 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 142830 ***