Bug 152499 - UI Variants dialog should have a Help button and a corresponding Help page
Summary: UI Variants dialog should have a Help button and a corresponding Help page
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Documentation (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.2.6.2 release
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Whiteboard: target:24.8.0
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Blocks: HelpGaps-NewFeatures
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Reported: 2022-12-13 20:51 UTC by Rafael Lima
Modified: 2024-04-22 13:21 UTC (History)
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Description Rafael Lima 2022-12-13 20:51:26 UTC
In any LO application, go to View - User Interface. This will open a dialog that allows users to change the UI variant.

Unlike most LO dialogs, this one does not have a Help button, nor does it have a help page in the online help.

Since this is a frequently used dialog, I believe we should have a help page for it.
Comment 1 V Stuart Foote 2022-12-14 16:48:06 UTC
Valid, there is no help article for the 'User Interface...' selection dialog.

And yes it would be helpful if the dialog had a linking 'Help' button, but it is not strictly necessary as once authored the <F1> suffices as for all UI component including dialogs.

see bug 106470, bug 115131 for emergence of providing the User Interface dialog rather than menu items as the MUFFIN Notebook Bar was implemented. And mid-way through bug 117463 on how the dialog was conceptualized.
Comment 2 Heiko Tietze 2022-12-15 07:46:49 UTC
I dislike simple dialogs being cluttered with help buttons. But I see the benefit, so go for it.
Comment 3 Martin Srebotnjak 2023-01-04 19:59:46 UTC
This is a really special among LO dialogs - in itself it is very graphic and includes an explanations for each option.
So, I don't know what a help page in this special case will bring - even more extensive explanations and more pictures for every option?
Comment 4 Olivier Hallot 2023-03-29 11:47:07 UTC
The fix is in 2 parts, core/ and Help.

The Help page already exist:

https://help.libreoffice.org/master/en-US/text/shared/01/notebook_bar.html

but has no bookmark entries, e.g.

Help ID: cui/ui/toolbarmodedialog/<widget>

and <widget> comes from cui/ui/toolbarmodedialog.ui open with Glade.

for example, for radio button 5 (rbButton5)

<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/cui/ui/toolbarmodedialog/rbButton5" id="bm_id251597347799541" localize="false"/>

The second part is in core/ to add a Help button to the dialog.
Comment 5 Commit Notification 2024-04-21 12:26:56 UTC
Olivier Hallot committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/92e567570c1ea49bc7b63fca2b0f5ad101c63471

tdf#152499 Help button for Select UI dialog

It will be available in 24.8.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 6 Commit Notification 2024-04-21 12:26:58 UTC
Olivier Hallot committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/help/commit/183a14d99cbf6b18fa7d3d059a2ff0639520a205

tdf#152499 Help page for Select UI dialog