User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.87 Safari/537.36 Build Identifier: LibreOffice 5.2.0.0.alpha0 the hyperlink dialog > Internet tab, has a button with a globe on it. that button opens a blank page in the default browser. the tooltip says: "Open web browser, copy an URL, and paste it to Target field." This is really bad UX and a workflow not used in 2016. Many users will have the browser open already. If not, just use a launcher or keyboard shortcut. That button is really awkward. And then it is highly likely users will not type an URL like: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=LibreOffice&component=Writer&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&format=guided&buildid=LibreOffice+5.2.0.0.alpha0&additional_info=%5BInformation+automatically+included+from+LibreOffice%5D%0ALocale%3A+en-US%0AModule%3A+TextDocument%0A%5BInformation+guessed+from+browser%5D%0AOS%3A+Mac+OS+X+(All)%0AOS+is+64bit%3A+no&op_sys=Mac+OS+X+(All) but instead that will come from their browsing path. Also what about users who take URLs from bibliography software? The button is assuming every URL is coming from the browser which is plain stupid and not true. I am assuming, the button is there, to give the tab a similar look to the other tabs. But why? I mean form follows function and not vice versa, right? If there's no good reason for a button, it should not be there. Done. Thus: please remove that button in the "internet" tab of the hyperlink dialog. That aside: Target: is a really odd name. Why not use URL: and users will know what the dialog is asking for. Reproducible: Always [Information automatically included from LibreOffice] Locale: en-US Module: TextDocument [Information guessed from browser] OS: Mac OS X (All) OS is 64bit: no Reset User Profile?No
Created attachment 123845 [details] button that should be removed
Yeah, you are right.
Agreed that the presence of that button responds to obsolete interaction patters, and that it’s better to remove it. I think we can make an Easy Hack out of this.
Would assume that hiding the button by changing visible to False would easily do the trick. http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/cui/uiconfig/ui/hyperlinkinternetpage.ui#112
Jakub Trzebiatowski committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=bb2fdee74fddd42914d0fa7d7b3820d0bd33237a tdf#98885 - hyperlink dialog - remove useless button It will be available in 5.2.0. 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.
Adolfo Jayme Barrientos committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/help/commit/?id=5ebb8347c5656e487d3d44423ccdedf7c7789da1 tdf#98885 Stop mentioning the removed globe button
verified, thx jakub & adolfo.