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
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Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
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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: 2025-07-18 03:40 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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