Bug 169525 - Notebookbar for LibreOffice Base
Summary: Notebookbar for LibreOffice Base
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Base (show other bugs)
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(earliest affected)
unspecified
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Blocks: Notebookbar Base-Enhancements
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Reported: 2025-11-18 20:20 UTC by Hossein
Modified: 2025-12-11 10:37 UTC (History)
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Description Hossein 2025-11-18 20:20:38 UTC 
Description:
LibreOffice Base is the only remaining application in LibreOffice that does not have a Notebookbar.

As can be seen by grepping the LibreOffice core source code, currently there is no notebookbar for LibreOffice Base.

$ git ls-files "*notebookbar.ui"
sc/uiconfig/scalc/ui/notebookbar.ui
sd/uiconfig/sdraw/ui/notebookbar.ui
sd/uiconfig/simpress/ui/notebookbar.ui
sfx2/uiconfig/ui/notebookbar.ui
sw/uiconfig/swriter/ui/notebookbar.ui

The request here is to add Notebookbar for LibreOffice Base.
Comment 1 Robert Großkopf 2025-11-19 07:20:08 UTC 
There are only 14 icons for Base by default. And all this tasks are also available by right mouse click.

Don't know what a notebookbar should help here for organizing…
Comment 2 Krithika Yetchina 2025-12-11 03:39:01 UTC 
Hey there, thank you for reporting this. It looks like currently, this is a limitation of LibreOffice. 

On the documentation, it looks like this is an intentional limitation: https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/shared/01/notebook_bar.html

If you could add some detail about the use-case for having NotebookBar in Base, this can best help the UX team.

I have set the bug's status to 'NEEDINFO'. Please change it back to 'UNCONFIRMED' once the requested information is provided.
Comment 3 Heiko Tietze 2025-12-11 10:37:05 UTC 
Let's make this NEW and see if volunteers want to work on it. As Robert pointed out it has a low priority but was never intentionally rejected.