Re: [libreoffice-design] LO Writer UI Analysis

On 01/29/2013 05:49 PM, Thibaut Brandscheid wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 9:58 PM, Jay Lozier <jslozier@gmail.com 
> <mailto:jslozier@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     In general I agree that some of the buttons are used less
>     frequently and that many users may not realize what they do.
>     Parallel to your ideas is are there buttons that should be
>     displayed that currently are not displayed?
>
> I don't think right now that any toolbar button should be added, but 
> maybe some functionality.
>
> It would be nice if there was a way to easily create a table of 
> contents (currently much too hidden in the menus) - could be added to 
> the 'Apply Style' menu at the bottom. Adding page numbers to the 
> footer or header is to complicated too.
Do you write lengthy documents? I ask because these seem to be issues 
when someone is writing large document. Another item is inserting 
footnotes/endnotes.
>     For example Close is one button I like to have on my tool bar.
>     Cleaning up and deleting rarely used buttons and replacing them
>     with more useful ones is a good topic to explore. I suspect there
>     will some disagreement about which buttons are relatively useless
>     and should be replaced, personally I would keep the table button.
>
>  Writer has currently too many buttons and therefore they should be 
> dramatic reduced. One or two new icons would be IMHO okay, but don't 
> refill the whole cleaned-up space.
>
>
>     I think the typical button layout borrows heavily from earlier
>     programs from as far back as the 80's and buttons these programs
>     displayed. Truthfully, I do not know how much good research has
>     been done on this topic or even if there really was any research
>     done in the beginning.
>
> o0
>
>
>     Typically I will add buttons I want to the tool bars, rarely will
>     I delete any of the default buttons. Also, I prefer using the
>     small size because I can have more buttons displayed on the tool
>     bar (possibly another topic).
>
> Reducing the icon size more than a few pixels is a no-go, there are 
> hell of a lot of people out there having problems to target small UI 
> elements -> http://goo.gl/6Lqvh
If the option to change the button size is available I think the default 
size is probably suitable for most.
> Regards
> Thibaut


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