Created attachment 125592 [details] Make navigating the menus easier. Searching through menus can often be time consuming, and if you're inexperienced with the Suite, you have to go to the Documentation to find a specific feature that you want. A nice way to fix that would be implementing a search box that allows you to search for specific functionalities in the program. Search for "horizontal line" and you get all the functionalities of the program with this keyword, including "insert horizontal line". You can simply click enter, and it will insert a horizontal line, or you can press Ctrl+Shift+Enter and it will show you how to navigate the menu to find that specific thing you searched for. If you search "Horizontal Line" and use the help option, it will open Format -> Styles and Formatting -> Horizontal Line step by step, showing the user how to get to that functionality without using the search box. Now the user can learn about the program in a more visual way without going to documentation.
Isn't this just a rehash of see also bug 43894 -- if the built-in help is installed the indexed search is provided as localized for the OS. F1 provides the dialog where select the Find tab. And on OS X, believe it is integrated into the Help menu.
No, this sounds like "search for commands" that is available by default in MSO 2016 (and with a plug-in in previous versions). And Ubuntu also has something like this to search the menus of programs (including LibreOffice).. When we reorganized the menu and we moved commands around something like this would be useful for the users. For example people didn't find pivot table at its usual place - with this the user could type "pivot" and the search would find all commands that has "pivot" in the name. So in this case it would find "Insert -> Pivot Table.." and if you click on it / hit enter, it would execute the command. I think something like this would be useful to have native in LO to make searching for commands in the menu easier and I don't think it would be that hard to implement.
(In reply to Tomaz Vajngerl from comment #2) > I think something like this would be useful to have native in LO to make > searching for commands in the menu easier and I don't think it would be that > hard to implement. Isn't this system feature, like Spotlight on MacOS or Unity's HUD? And in case of Microsoft Windows there might be an app which does the same. So NOTOURFEATURE?
Essentially the same idea as bug 91874 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 91874 ***
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #3) > Isn't this system feature, like Spotlight on MacOS or Unity's HUD? And in > case of Microsoft Windows there might be an app which does the same. So > NOTOURFEATURE? Well for OSX and Ubuntu it is a system feature but this requires a system with global menu and integration from LO. So I doubt there is an application for Windows which does this. I think this feature is useful for all users so it would be useful to have it available in LO on all platforms. The search could go even deeper and not be bound just to the menu (style search and apply for example). That's probably why MS added it to MSO 2016. It is quite convenient to hit Alt-Q and type "ins pic" + enter to open an insert picture dialog.
(In reply to Tomaz Vajngerl from comment #5) > Well for OSX and Ubuntu it is a system feature but this requires a system > with global menu and integration from LO. So I doubt there is an application > for Windows which does this. So in the end we mimic a system behavior for users that doesn't know it? What I mean is that every OS/DE has its special design and workflow. Somthing might be really good for the one the other is highly appreciate on the other system. But it's never a good idea to bring all together. While the search may be a nice feature it is available out-of-the-box on those platforms where it is implemented. So let's keep this as it is. However I believe an extension that adds this feature would be a really good enhancement. And I wonder if we should include extensions in the bug tracker, with a workflow similar to EASYHACK where interested people may start to contribute.
@Heiko, please move any UX discussion to dupe bug 91874, and for what it is worth I agree with Tomaž to provide as internal feature of LO.