[libreoffice-design] Re: Impress Mode Toolbar

Italo Vignoli-6 wrote
> On 13/01/16 14:35, V Stuart Foote wrote:
> > Feel any better after that rant?
>
> Sorry, it was not a rant, because the situation - as it is - is
> unacceptable for serious Impress users, who have not been even asked
> before changing the UI of the application they use most. They are not
> subscribed to the design mailing list, and they should be asked before
> changing the UI.

Hmm, it all seems like a text book "rant"--rather petulant.  And I'm not
sure "serious Impress users" have any more weight than "serious Calc users"
or "serious Writer users".

None the less, the developer who implemented the code got to decide based on
input in IRC, design meetings, gerrit feedback, and related issues filed in
BZ (see  tdf#87672
<https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87672>   for example). 

In this case, available in master and  in time for the 5.1.0beta1, the
Impress Mode tab bar  was toggled inactive by default because we've added a
new "Display Mode" split button widget  and an optional "Mode Tab Bar"
button widget to the standard toolbar. There was simply no longer a need for
the Mode tab bar to be on by default. 

With the refactoring, we now had a way to turn it off, and did so--users are
welcome to turn it back on (from the View menu or by adding the toggle
button to their Standard toolbar) if they choose.

> From your apparent shock that something changed, should we assume that you
had not taken a recent build of master nor one of the 5.1.0 beta releases
out for a test? And only now got around to seeing what is new?

Stuart



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