Bug 138539 - Start Center: make create new list more visible
Summary: Start Center: make create new list more visible
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.0.3.1 release
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: needsUXEval
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Reported: 2020-11-28 09:11 UTC by S.Zosgornik
Modified: 2020-12-01 14:14 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description S.Zosgornik 2020-11-28 09:11:20 UTC
Description:
Creating a new document from start center could need visual improvements.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open LibreOffice start center 
2.create new document from the list

Actual Results:
entries for new documents are listed as module[space]document type with the related module symbol in front of each entry, which makes it hard to read

Expected Results:
entries for new documents should only involve module symbol and document-type


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
Version: 7.0.3.1 (x64)
Build ID: d7547858d014d4cf69878db179d326fc3483e082
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 6.3 Build 9600; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-GB (en_GB); UI: en-US
Calc: CL
Comment 1 V Stuart Foote 2020-11-29 15:07:23 UTC
No the current mix of Icon - module - ODF document type was a UX design decision, for branding/marketing and accessibility [1]

Unless/until the StartCenter is again redesigned, its layout is appropriate.

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[1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/Start_Center see the 'Sidebar Button Names' stanzas.
Comment 2 S.Zosgornik 2020-11-30 11:34:34 UTC
I understand it's serves LibO branding and user recognition.

How about a dash and an additional space between module and document-type?

Writer - Document
Calc - Spreadsheet...

For branding reason would I replace the current Impress icon with the default one as said "the labels are consistent with the OS start menu LibreOffice entries"
Comment 3 V Stuart Foote 2020-11-30 14:26:30 UTC
Again absent a complete redesign of the Startcenter this seems a bit of "bikeshedding" and uncessessary. And while I do like "hyphens" (em-dash) for visual separators, we don't use them anywhere else in the UI (e.g. main menu labels).

But we'll throw it back for UX-advise.

IMHO => WF
Comment 4 Heiko Tietze 2020-12-01 14:14:20 UTC
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #3)
> "bikeshedding" and uncessessary

I don't see icons as disadvantage for readability. Maybe a bloody beginner does not know that Writer is used to create documents but anyone else does. And no one reads the labels but picks the icon in a glance. => agree with WF