Bug 124826 - Change standard UI of LibO to an UI similar to LOOL
Summary: Change standard UI of LibO to an UI similar to LOOL
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
unspecified
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Depends on: 124825
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Reported: 2019-04-18 15:24 UTC by andreas_k
Modified: 2019-04-23 19:36 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Single Toolbar (163.28 KB, image/png)
2019-04-23 16:31 UTC, andreas_k
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Description andreas_k 2019-04-18 15:24:29 UTC
LibreOffice is an great tool and it has a lot of features and power together with LibreOffice Online it will boost there power to the next step of continuous integration.

Therefore an global UX strategy would be useful.

As the UI of LibreOffice didn't change in the last decade (icons change, but not the general UX like MSO did with ribbons) I would suggest to make an UI change to sync the UI of LibreOffice with LibreOffice Online, so that the user has no different workflow at LibO and LOOL.

And behind this UI change (however it will be in the end) I'd like to have an generic strategy behind the UI in LibO and LOOL.
Comment 1 andreas_k 2019-04-18 15:40:49 UTC
Just use Single Line Toolbar didn't work cause it will show all the contextual toolbars (which are yet not available in LOOL) and which make the UI jumping.

So in general it's more like find an strategy for LibO and LOOL (together) and make it working.
Comment 2 Jean-Baptiste Faure 2019-04-21 20:00:32 UTC
(In reply to andreas_k from comment #0)
> As the UI of LibreOffice didn't change in the last decade (icons change, but
> not the general UX like MSO did with ribbons) [...]

I disagree: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2016/12/21/the-document-foundation-announces-the-muffin-a-new-tasty-user-interface-concept-for-libreoffice/


Best regards. JBF
Comment 3 Heiko Tietze 2019-04-23 09:09:38 UTC
The decision was made some time ago to keep the classic UI and provide alternatives to users. JBF comments with MUFFIN accordingly. 

Furthermore any approach to make a desktop app look and feel like a website is likely to fail.
Comment 4 andreas_k 2019-04-23 16:31:16 UTC
Created attachment 150958 [details]
Single Toolbar

Maybe I have to disuss this toppic first in 1:1 chat. However attached how Single Line Toolbar look in context-default (context-text) and context-graphic.

From my point of view it should be the same behaviour when you have different context items.
Comment 5 andreas_k 2019-04-23 16:32:08 UTC
sorry wrong bug.
Comment 6 andreas_k 2019-04-23 19:36:00 UTC
I don't think that LibO should have a separate UI than LOOL, but I'm ok with close the bug as long as I don't know the strategy of LibO and LOOL.