Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Unable to Protect/Unprotect cells in Libreoffice 5

I totally agree with Tanstaafl. What USERS want for all menu's should 
always be the primary driver of design. A long established design should 
not be changed cavalierly wither user comment input.

+1

Joe Conner, Poulsbo, WA USA



On 08/30/2015 10:19 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
> I completely and totally disagree that a 'Cell' related context menu -
> when right-clicking on a cell in a table - would 'complicate' the
> context menu in any way. In fact, I think it makes it improves the UI
> for new users.
>
> I understand the idea of simplifying things for new users, but I totally
> disagree that that should be some kind of massively major focus,
> especially to the point of making things more difficult for your
> existing user base.
>
> But whatever, I'll go and create a new enhancement request to allow
> customizing the context menus.
>
> Maybe there has been ample time to play with the alpha and beta
> releases, but you do realize that suggesting that we should be able to
> find every little thing like this just from playing with them is - well,
> a bit ridiculous.
>
> Fyi: major changes like this should be ANNOUNCED - and specific requests
> to look for changes in certain areas and please test and comment would
> go a long way to helping us help you.
>
> On 8/28/2015 8:26 PM, V Stuart Foote <VStuart.Foote@utsa.edu> wrote:
> > Tanstaafl wrote
> > > But, we shouldn't have to do this, so the bug will stay open to just add
> > > the relevant menu entries - and to bring these two back to the context
> > > menu.
> > Sorry, but the context menu rework and changes to the Table toolbar and menu
> > were committed in April 2015, and have been that way on all builds of
> > master, the entire 5.0.0 beta run, and for all  5.0.0 release candidates
> > since then.
> >
> > The change to the Table menu to add the missing "Unprotect Cells" as in
> > tdf#93713 <https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93713>   will
> > correct that oversight, but there has been ample time to preview and comment
> > on the many GUI and design issues that come with the 5.0 release.  I'd
> > invite folks to stay more involved with development and QA going forward.
> >
> > >From a Design UX-advise perspective the HIG work dictates that we simplify
> > the user interface for the benefit of our beginner users--the context menus
> > were put on a diet accordingly :D
> >
> > =-ref-=
> > https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/15535/


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