Bug 154424 - Remove non-functional menu entries and dialogs from AppStore version (macOS)
Summary: Remove non-functional menu entries and dialogs from AppStore version (macOS)
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.4.6.2 release
Hardware: All macOS (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Blocks: macOS-UI-polish
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Reported: 2023-03-28 11:20 UTC by Alex Thurgood
Modified: 2025-12-21 03:11 UTC (History)
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Description Alex Thurgood 2023-03-28 11:20:20 UTC
Description:
There are a number of menu entries which are either visible, or greyed out, and which simply do nothing in the version released through the Apple appstore.

This misleads the user into thinking that these menu entries can in some way be activated, whether by configuration or further payment, as is the case with other limited functionality software available through the AppStore, when in fact this is not the case. 

The end result, when the user discovers this, is disappointment, deception and a feeling of frustration.

In order to avoid or reduce the negative impact on the product that these discoveries create, it would be better to remove or hide those menu entries completely.

 

Steps to Reproduce:
1. As an example of stuff that doesn't work and which has a greyed out menu entry, with a document open, look at the File > Send menu entries, where most are greyed out.

2. Another example, all DB UI wizards.





Actual Results:
UI has entries that do nothing.

Expected Results:
Don't show UI entries that do nothing. Remove or hide them from the UI.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes

Additional Info:
Version: 7.4.6.2 / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 5b1f5509c2decdade7fda905e3e1429a67acd63d
CPU threads: 8; OS: Mac OS X 13.2.1; UI render: default; VCL: osx
Locale: fr-FR (fr_FR.UTF-8); UI: fr-FR
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 Sierk Bornemann 2023-03-28 13:30:57 UTC
Confirmed.

I add: not limited to the macOS App Store version, but also related to all versions relating the macOS platform (the update button/function for instance. Or the UI for hardware acceleration for instance). Please remove such functions and UI elements entirely, if dysfunctional or not functional at all or not needed at all or never has worked at all. Please communicate with the user with a clear, functional user interface, not with one, which disturbes and unsettles or nerves the user or leaves him questioning.
Comment 2 Dennis Roczek 2023-03-28 15:54:46 UTC
Well, basically everything regarding Base is also... not working.
Comment 3 Alex Thurgood 2023-12-21 12:55:04 UTC
Issue still reproducible in

Version: 7.5.9.2 (AARCH64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: cdeefe45c17511d326101eed8008ac4092f278a9
CPU threads: 8; OS: Mac OS X 14.1.1; UI render: default; VCL: osx
Locale: fr-FR (fr_FR.UTF-8); UI: fr-FR
Calc: threaded
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2025-12-21 03:11:53 UTC
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