On Windows, deeper menu structures are common in the start menu. Thus I suggest to add a subfolder "LibreOffice Community" with links to helpful resources. e.g.: start menu - LibreOffice folder -- LibreOffice -- LibreOffice Writer -- LibreOffice Calc -- ... -- LibreOffice Community --- User-to-User Support (link to ask.libreoffice.org) --- LibreOffice wiki (link to the TDF wiki) --- LibreOffice Users chat (link to user freenode webchat) --- News from the Community (link to planet.documentfoundation.org) Bugzilla/BSA should not be there -- someone who knows nothing about these things will not be very happy about the response there (e.g. because of incomplete report for inexperience etc.). Better he/she learns about bugzilla on ask.libreoffice.orhg If the ux-advise team is ok with this, it likely can be turned into an Easy Hack.
@Björn, Setting to Enhancement and as NEW. But, I am not sure this makes a lot of sense. Especially with the elimination of the Start Menu with Windows 8 onward (still there but deeply suppressed). If this were to go anywhere, I would think that onto the general use Help menu and available to all OS implementations.
+1 for VSF suggestions (general Help menu + all OS)
wrt all OS: e.g. on Linux there is no deep menu structure: there is a (distro/desktop-defined) top level "category", were LibreOffice falls in "Office" or "Productivity" and there are no further subfolders below. See http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/
Like Stuart, I am not sure this request is very useful. + Afaik, Microsoft generally does not like the developer habit of using the start menu to link to web pages, uninstallers etc. + Windows 8 now has a Start screen that only supports one level of categories. + On Linux, Björn's comment 3 applies. + On OS X, there is no such thing as a menu, just a dock & an application folder. Seems like a better idea to me to update http://qa.libreoffice.org/feedback with links to the wiki and chat. The libreoffice.org already contains plenty of news, so no need to link to that, imho.
(In reply to comment #4) > Seems like a better idea to me to update http://qa.libreoffice.org/feedback > with links to the wiki and chat. > The libreoffice.org already contains plenty of news, so no need to link to > that, imho. So hiding this below "Help" doesnt benefit us much, but in the fancy new start center we have: |Help | Extensions | in the lower left corner. How about making that: | Get Involved | | Feedback | | Help | Extensions | with "Get Involved" linking to http://www.libreoffice.org/community/get-involved/ and feedback linking to http://qa.libreoffice.org/feedback. Putting "Get Involved" on the top would be quite essential to raise awareness of this being a community effort and helping users to get out of a pure consumer mindset ...
So is 2015 finally the year of LibO? Kidding. I like the idea.
Agree with Bjorn this should be included in Windows in the start menu as i've seem many applications do the same thing and Windows XP and Windows 7 have a larger user base than Windows 8 and Windows 10 brings back the start menu as it was before. Including it in the help is also a good idea as there is more than enough space as it only has 5 entries.
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