(See bug 164970 comment 50) A UI customization the choice in which may be meaningful for newbie users is the choice of what to put on toolbar buttons: icons only, text only, or icons + text. At the moment, this choice can only be made at the single-toolbar level, in the Tools > Customize... dialog. There is no UI for setting this for all toolbars at once; and I don't know whether such a universal setting exists in the backend. I would like to have that choice, e.g. in Tools > Options...
+1 to allow single selection (Icon only, Text only, Icon and Text) to apply across the UI, the reworked Tools -> Options -> Appearance panel seems reasonable since Icons theme selection is being moved there. Expect it would be exposed for the First launch welcome that way. Possibly also some type of control on the View -> Toolbars menu? Placed with the customize, reset, and lock control. Where on menu it is better discoverable for those needing AT.
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #1) it would be exposed for the First launch welcome that way. > > Possibly also some type of control on the View -> Toolbars menu? Placed with > the customize, reset, and lock control. Where on menu it is better > discoverable for those needing AT. That would be nice too, but not sure if that should be covered by the same bug. But - let "doers decide" perhaps?
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #2) > (In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #1) > it would be exposed for the First launch welcome that way. > > > > Possibly also some type of control on the View -> Toolbars menu? Placed with > > the customize, reset, and lock control. Where on menu it is better > > discoverable for those needing AT. > > That would be nice too, but not sure if that should be covered by the same > bug. But - let "doers decide" perhaps? Sure, but scope of work needed to set icon/text values globally from a Tools -> Options -> Appearance panel would require little more to provide as UNO for menu use. While addition of such a control on the View -> Toolbars menu would be appropriate to service notated blocked 'accessibility' issues. No sense to splitting to a new issue.
-1, don't agree with the use case. Maybe as an expert option to pick the default - but that's not helping newbies. Benjamin is supposed to work with a dedicated UI, eg the Tabbed Compact Notebookbar as discussed in bug 166894, but not to modify each UI to his preference.
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #4) > -1, don't agree with the use case. Maybe as an expert option to pick the > default - but that's not helping newbies. Weird. The per-toolbar setting is perhaps an expert option. The all-toolbar choice is very basic. That's like saying you don't agree with a light/dark choice for all modules, only at the individual module level. Weird... > Benjamin is supposed to work with a dedicated UI, eg the Tabbed Compact > Notebookbar as discussed in bug 166894, but not to modify each UI to his > preference. Part of the UI choice is whether he wants text near the icons or not. Might not be super-relevant to tabbed compact, but very relevant to tabbed and to menu+toolbars. This UI choice is well-established in applications like Windows Explorer, Firefox and Thunderbird. It will be a great fit in the Appearance section of the Options dialog, along the UI mode, dark-vs-light, icon theme and color scheme/theme :-)
We discussed the topic in the design meeting. We all agree that text in addition to the icons support beginners. Concerns about overflow on most toolbars, in particular the default Standard and Formatting, have been countered with the argument that the option, supposed to be at Tools > Options > Appearance, would be opt-in and users can easily customize it for some toolbars or switch it off again. It would be nice to have an overflow option that moves the toolbar buttons (resp. icons) into a second line.