Bug 166406 - Direction buttons placed one on top of the other in NB Tabbed UI
Summary: Direction buttons placed one on top of the other in NB Tabbed UI
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.5 all versions
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: needsUXEval
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Blocks: Notebookbar-Tabbed RTL-UI
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Reported: 2025-04-30 12:36 UTC by Eyal Rozenberg
Modified: 2025-04-30 17:03 UTC (History)
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Screenshot of the tabbed notebookbar in Writer, LO 25.8 nightly (43.18 KB, image/png)
2025-04-30 12:36 UTC, Eyal Rozenberg
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Description Eyal Rozenberg 2025-04-30 12:36:13 UTC
Created attachment 200617 [details]
Screenshot of the tabbed notebookbar in Writer, LO 25.8 nightly

In the notebookbar tabbed UI mode, the RLT and LTR paragraph directions are placed one above the other - with a "toggle formatting marks", which also uses the pilcrow image, placed right next to the top button. That's confusing and kind of silly.
Comment 1 V Stuart Foote 2025-04-30 16:31:22 UTC
Yep, the over-under for the controls seems a little awkward, but only for the NB Tabbed UI.

NB Tabbed Compact, Single Toolbar, Contextual Single places them side-by-side, while the Grouped and Grouped Compact place them onto the drop list menu of 'Paragraph' controls--top of the lb.

Seems like the Tabbed UI Paragraph block could packed a little different to end up with them side-by-side? 

Andreas, Justin any thought?
Comment 2 Eyal Rozenberg 2025-04-30 17:03:22 UTC
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #1)
> Seems like the Tabbed UI Paragraph block could packed a little different to
> end up with them side-by-side? 
> 
> Andreas, Justin any thought?

The simplest thing, though not good enough IMO, is to put both directions on the top row, and move the non-printing characters toggle on the bottom row - a super-localized change. But it would be better to actually separate those somewhat. In fact, I'm not sure that the choice of a pilcrow for the non-printing characters is even appropriate, given how much that looks like the paragraph direction buttons.