Description: When you start LibreOffice without selecting an application (what I call the startup, run dev version like so "/data/libreoffice/instdir/program/soffice") - then text is not as descriptive as it could be. I think that this is only the case when you have no recent documents. Text: "Welcome to LibreOfficeDev. Drop a document here or pick an app from the left side to create one." Proposed: "Welcome to LibreOfficeDev Open an existing document by selecting "Open File" or "Remote Files" on the left or by dragging and dropping a file onto this screen. Create a new document by selecting the appropriate app on the left side." Obviously trivial. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open LibreOffice (not into a specific application) 2. Clear all recent documents 3. Close LibreOffice 4. Open LibreOffice again (not into a specific application) Read text. Actual Results: Text is accurate but not a fully descriptive set of instructions. Expected Results: Clarify everything that can be done from that screen. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: Yes Additional Info: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/66.0.3359.139 Safari/537.36 OPR/53.0.2907.37
Hi Joel, * Not to intentionally kick off a round of "bikeshedding", but why would we want (or need) to change what is a Welcome in the Start Center recentdocsview [1]? If anything, cut it back to just use the STR_WELCOME_LINE1 "Welcome to LibreOffice", and provide a proper tooltip/F1 help item for the thumbnail view pane. Otherwise the minimal text, that Adolfo laid down for the STR_WELCOME_LINE2 [2] for bug 93060 remains sufficient. IMHO => WONTFIX =-ref-= [1] https://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/sfx2/source/control/recentdocsview.cxx#117 [2] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=cf9d9a3348a951df0a1261a0daee7e98fd8f28a4
Agree with Stuart. Too many words spoil the broth. The possibility to open per "Open" is obvious.
Yeah, I would also only ever change this text to make it shorter or to remove it—I had felt back then than the drag-and-drop functionality wasn’t obvious for casual users, and this seemed like a good way to promote it, given we had recently revamped the Start Screen UI. So maybe people don’t need any instructions there now?