Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Fedora Magazine article about LibreOffice

Hi :)
Hopefully 'just' teething problems that will be ironed out fairly quickly,
inshalla.

Were you able to follow the route;
Tools - Options - Advanced - Expert
and then search for relevant options to get the main top menu back again?
Regards from
a Tom :)



On 6 July 2018 at 15:43, Graham Luffrum <grhmlffrm@gmail.com> wrote:

> This is all very well, but on my system (6.0.5.2 under Linux Mint 18.1) the
> settings icon does not work which means that I can get back to the default
> only by changing the Notebooktoolbar settings.  Also the menubar is not
> shown by default - again this requires changes to the Notebooktoolbar
> settings.
>
> Graham
>
>
> On Fri, 6 Jul 2018 at 09:24, M Henri Day <mhenriday@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Den tors 5 juli 2018 kl 14:39 skrev Philip Jackson <
> > philip.jackson@nordnet.fr>:
> >
> > > I tried the Notebookbar after looking at the Fedora article. It worked
> > > just as advertised and I managed to return to default using the '3
> small
> > > horizontal lines' icon on the rhs of the ribbon.  I was using LO
> 6.0.0.2
> > > (I think)
> > >
> > > I wasn't impressed by the Notebookbar - it seems to be variations on a
> > > theme started by MS some years ago and immediately followed by some
> > > other software houses just like it was the fashion of the day. The
> > > introduction of the ribbon by Avid Sibelius raised howls of protest
> from
> > > the veteran users of Sibelius - but that's just because we're mostly
> > > very conservative and don't like change.
> > >
> > > Yesterday, I upgraded LO to 6.0.5.2 and took the opportunity to recheck
> > > Notebookbar. Out of the 6 variants, the first 2 'Contextual Groups' and
> > > 'Contextual Simple' don't show the little icon. The next 2 variants,
> > > 'Tabbed' and 'Tabbed Compact' do show the icon.
> > >
> > > The last two, 'Grouped bar full' and 'Group bar compact' don't show the
> > > icon BUT they do have an item at the far right called 'Menu' which has
> a
> > > drop down which allows you to toggle on the Menu Bar  - and to select
> > > the different variants of Notebookbar.
> > >
> > > The number of combinations seem to be numerous. I may have missed a
> > > combination but it seemed to me that although I could turn off the
> > > regular MenuBar in the Grouped Bar full and compact variants, it still
> > > appeared in the 2 tabbed variants.
> > >
> > > This ribbon seems good to pass away a few spare minutes. For a new
> user,
> > > it may provide something of interest but I think I'll stay with the old
> > > menu bar.
> > >
> > > Philip
> >
> >
> > ​<snip>
> >
> > Agree with Philip above about retaining the old toolbar layout - one
> could,
> > of course, learn the «ribbon»​, but why bother - especially when it is
> more
> > complicated to use and doesn't seem to provide any advantages. But I do
> > think it's worthwhile experimenting with and it's easy to get back to the
> > default toolbar layout, så long as the menubar is shown (which it is by
> > defautl ; if one doesn't see it in the ribbon view, click the settings
> icon
> > (the three horizontal lines) at the upper right and check the
> alternative))
> > just click there on View → Toolbar Layout and choose Default....
> >
> > Henri
> >
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