Description: 1) In the comparison of the top taskbar between Impress and Writer, some functions are available on Writer but not on Impress such as Font styles, highlighting text and text resizing, which would be beneficial in terms of document creation. 2) It needs CTA to display all slides for users to quickly review. Actual Results: Users have an option to set up the taskbar they prefer, although it doesn't help simplify the situation. (e.g.) View → User Interface → Select your preferred user interface Expected Results: Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: I designed mockups for Impress Presentation just to explain the idea and improvements that I pointed out above. Impress offers a lot of features despite being free open source, however, after reviewing some product feedback I found that users felt confused and discouraged with un-friendly UI. The current features may need to be rearranged/eliminated and focus on each function to work better other than having them overloaded.
Created attachment 182064 [details] Mockups for Impress Presentation
The classic toolbars (TB) are configured to fit on small screens with at least 1280x768px. The "Standard" TB provides access to functions like Open, Save, Print... and the "Text Formatting" TB is what you miss in Impress. This toolbar was made hidden for bug 87676 to keep the UI clean (you can enable it via View > Toolbars) - Writer has its focus on text editing while Impress deals kind of 50/50 with text input and image/object arrangement. One solution is to use the sidebar (you may have missed the tiny bar at the right edge when it is collapsed), where all text attributes are at the first "Properties" deck (context sensitive for text). And we have some alternative "notebookbars" configured via View > User Interface. For example the "Tabbed" variant provides all functionality. And last but not least it is possible to configure the UI to your liking via Tools > Customize. This could be a solution if you like, for example, the classic UI but your workflow requires one additional control. Putting all together I'll resolve the request as WF. The decision to hide the Text Formatting TB is reasonable, Impress does not need to be alike Writer, and there are plenty of options to change the UI.