Bug 167560 - Toolbar's "Review" menubutton's Tracked Changes items (Record, Show, Manage…) labels not explicit enough (in Groupedbar Compact and Tabbed compact)
Summary: Toolbar's "Review" menubutton's Tracked Changes items (Record, Show, Manage…)...
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
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(earliest affected)
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Hardware: All All
: medium minor
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Blocks: Track-Changes Notebookbar Notebookbar-Groupedbar
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Reported: 2025-07-18 03:36 UTC by Jeff Fortin Tam
Modified: 2025-12-14 15:19 UTC (History)
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Demonstration video (455.39 KB, video/mp4)
2025-07-18 03:36 UTC, Jeff Fortin Tam
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Description Jeff Fortin Tam 2025-07-18 03:36:54 UTC
Created attachment 201859 [details]
Demonstration video

This is about the specific case of toolbar UI layout styles that use a "Review" menubutton for tracked changes actions (such as the "Groupedbar Compact" style, or "Tabbed compact" style), without the menubar.

As the attached video demonstrates, that toolbar's "Review" menubutton contains a couple of action items that came from the traditional menubar's "Edit > Track Changes" submenu, except that they are not in a submenu (a bit like bug #132168) which means they are not semantically grouped, they are just single words ("Record", "Show", "Manage…") that don't really make sense standalone in the context of a menu only called "Review" that also has a bunch of non-track-changes-related items.

In comparison, the "View" menu has the same Show action but named explicitly: "Show Tracked Changes". So the string already exists there somewhere.

In the Review menubutton, I would recommend either grouping those actions into a "Tracked Changes" submenu, or naming each of them explicitly:

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* Record Changes           (or something like that)
* Show Tracked Changes
* Manage Tracked Changes…
* Protect Track Changes
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This affects various toolbars that use the "Review" menubutton; it affects the big "Tabbed notebookbar" less because that one has dedicated buttons for those actions, with tooltips on those buttons.



This was observed with:

Version: 25.2.4.3 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 33e196637044ead23f5c3226cde09b47731f7e27
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.14; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
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Comment 1 Jeff Fortin Tam 2025-12-14 15:19:29 UTC
Note that the "Show Track Changes" menu item does not actually represent all the possible ways this can work, currently. As it turns out, there are various show modes that are not reflected at the moment, and that might need it to be a submenu. See https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151665#c6 for reference.