UI: Option to use Abbreviated names for Buttons Example: Review Tab in Writer The buttons "Comment", "Reply Comment" and "Delete Comment" have long names. The word "Comment" is superfluous in this context. Abbreviated names: "Comment", "Reply", "Delete"; Enhancement: - Implement abbreviated names for buttons; - Option to use the abbreviated names in the specific tab; It is still useful to display the full name in certain locations (e.g. in a list of commands or if the user customizes the tabs). But abbreviated names are more compact, when the buttons are grouped together.
Unfortunately no simple fix beyond the labels/names already provided without major refactoring. There are some simple omissions of labeling like bug 170517, but a lot of room to improve. While current limit to four text strings--Label, ContextLabel, TooltipLabel, PopupLabel--in the XCU often does not give enough granularity for needs of describing the UI. Have a close read of bug 108458, or the more recent discussions of bug 169659 to understand the configuration issues around labeling for the UNO controls that make up the User Interface. One UNO command, but multiple places it can be used, and a a suitable label (and l10n translation) for each, primarily held in the command.xcu XML configuration text file. The user UI Customize... dialog could certainly benefit by more consistent differentiation of each UNO's function.
I think "abbreviated names" "in the specific tab" means to have shorter labels on the Notebookbar variants, namely the Tabbed UI, where the full label of a command is currently used. We have bug 163117 requesting a dedicated label for this place. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 163117 ***
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #2) > I think "abbreviated names" "in the specific tab" means to have shorter > labels on the Notebookbar variants, namely the Tabbed UI, where the full > label of a command is currently used. We have bug 163117 requesting a > dedicated label for this place. > > *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 163117 *** +1 to duplicate to bug 163117, i.e. to implement a new use class of label in command.xcu to support MUFFIN buttons.