Bug 98885

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.87 Safari/537.36
Build Identifier: LibreOffice 5.2.0.0.alpha0

the hyperlink dialog > Internet tab, has a button with a globe on it. that button opens a blank page in the default browser. the tooltip says:
"Open web browser, copy an URL, and paste it to Target field."

This is really bad UX and a workflow not used in 2016. Many users will have the browser open already. If not, just use a launcher or keyboard shortcut. That button is really awkward. And then it is highly likely users will not type an URL like: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=LibreOffice&component=Writer&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&format=guided&buildid=LibreOffice+5.2.0.0.alpha0&additional_info=%5BInformation+automatically+included+from+LibreOffice%5D%0ALocale%3A+en-US%0AModule%3A+TextDocument%0A%5BInformation+guessed+from+browser%5D%0AOS%3A+Mac+OS+X+(All)%0AOS+is+64bit%3A+no&op_sys=Mac+OS+X+(All)

but instead that will come from their browsing path.

Also what about users who take URLs from bibliography software? The button is assuming every URL is coming from the browser which is plain stupid and not true.

I am assuming, the button is there, to give the tab a similar look to the other tabs. But why? I mean form follows function and not vice versa, right? If there's no good reason for a button, it should not be there. Done.

Thus: please remove that button in the "internet" tab of the hyperlink dialog.

That aside: Target: is a really odd name. Why not use URL: and users will know what the dialog is asking for.

Reproducible: Always




[Information automatically included from LibreOffice]
Locale: en-US
Module: TextDocument
[Information guessed from browser]
OS: Mac OS X (All)
OS is 64bit: no


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