We removed the Formatting toolbar some time ago to increase use of the Sidebar. However, I think we should allow users to choose whether they want to use the Sidebar or now. I suggest to bring the Formatting toolbar back.
View > Toolbars > Text formatting: on by default? +0.25 from my side
Currently (5.3), in Impress, when editing a text box, the text formatting toolbar appears. On systems with a narrow screen, the result is that the toolbar appears below the toolbar and pushes the whole content down. This is very disruptive for the user as the text box they are editing is shifted down, and perhaps off the visible window. What is needed for there to be a way to stop the text formatting toolbar from appearing when text editing is selected. Enabling the text formatting toolbar generally results in it disappearing after the first text edit and we are back to the appearing and disappearing toolbars.
The only solution that makes everyone happy is the Notebookbar. Going back to previous layouts is a regression and WONTFIX the problem.
We still support the "classic" toolbar layout. It's still the most complete and customizable solution, the only one with extension support etc. So improving it is still a priority, at least to me.
(In reply to Samuel Mehrbrodt (CIB) from comment #4) > We still support the "classic" toolbar layout. > It's still the most complete and customizable solution, the only one with > extension support etc. > So improving it is still a priority, at least to me. Hope you don't expect UX to find another good solution for the problem ;-). Open for ideas...
Notebookbar had an extra tab (context-text) for text formating. In default two line layout I don't understood why there is NO text formating toolbare when you are in a text field. Have as second toolbare all the drawing stuff is nice but general you have also text on your presentation instead of shapes isn't it? If you have to use the sidebar, than you can also switch to single line toolbar or sidebar layout toolbar.
Martin gives the reason in comment 2 why we prefer the sidebar. And Andreas provides an alternative in comment 6 additionally to checking View > Toolbars > Text formatting. => WFM
In general I think that for Impress/Draw the default layout we have now is not perfect and we have better solutions. I tend to use the tabbed compact toolbar layout as default for Impress and Draw for two reasons: 1. Cause the UX is better than the existing UX 2. To show our users that we have also an tabbed layout 3. (Cause MS offers an simplified tabbed layout) https://www.reddit.com/r/libreoffice/comments/e15nl5/im_sorry_but_to_me_impress_is_just_bad/