Presently when the main button of the insert field group button (.uno:InsertFieldCtrl) is clicked, it opens the fields dialog, which is already accessible with the 'other...' option in the drop down, so its best that the default button should be insert page number, as its the most frequently inserted field type, and this default doesnt need to be changed whenever a user decides to add a different field.
Samuel Mehrbrodt committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=5f45400ca17d52a4ee40672ac409b6521ad86f76 fdo#84550 Make 'Insert field' entry dropdown only The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
We discussed on IRC to give the fields also a new order: Page number, Page count, Date, Time, Title, Author, Subject
Samuel Mehrbrodt committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=870befe9847eda85a8a5e48697486a4cf7b4ed7f fdo#84550 Reflect new field order also in Menu The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
(In reply to Samuel Mehrbrodt from comment #2) > We discussed on IRC to give the fields also a new order: > Page number, Page count, Date, Time, Title, Author, Subject To further clarify, this suggestion was mentioned in my toolbar proposal (bug 81475), which shows which entries are more used than others.
Reopening as it wasnt supposed to be dropdownonly, the default main button was to be changed to insert page number.
The design team members have decided against my suggestion of having it as a two-click group button and infavour of the one-click drop down button. Below are stats provided during the discussion on why i suggested page number be the default click button of the two-click group button. Usage Stats of drop down entries: PageNumber 48.75% Date 16.62% PageCount 10.38% Time 4.79% Title 1.92% Author 1.18% Topic 1.02% More... 15.33%