[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 75644] Start Center better options to control LibO window resize of the start screen (StartModule) and last used window size of each document module (Summary comment 10)

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75644

--- Comment #16 from pb <blicher@comcast.net> ---
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #15)

> Expect it to be a configurable option--i.e. closing last active component
> exposes the Start Center, or not and fully closes LO.

Sounds good to me.

> > This would remove some inconveniences using LO under Windows:
> >
> > 1.  Taskbar appearance changes, making it harder to find again later.
> > 2.  Taskbar location changes, since this is a new application as far as the
> > (Windows) window manager is concerned.
>
> Valid, but only of minimal impact because for a full (non-administrative)
> LibreOffice install on Windows 7, or 8/8.1, pinning each launcher to the
> Windows taskbar fixes the location for each component on the taskbar and
> exposes the Windows shell jump-list behaviors. It is only when left unpinned
> (the default for any application) that the order/placement changes depending
> on activity (also default).

I have a slightly different view of that.  First, avoiding an unpleasant (to
me, anyway) default behavior that other programs do not generally exhibit
should not require using OS UI features that do not occur by default, and which
may not be obvious to a naive user.  In addition, for me anyway, the taskbar is
cluttered enough without pinning things to it.  I prefer to just have desktop
items that have the same function.

Incidentally, I also noticed an inverse behavior, which is a similar bug:  If
there is an LO app currently open, starting the LO startcenter switches to that
app as opposed to running the startcenter screen.  It seems that the more
appropriate behavior would be to show the startcenter -- after all, the user
might want to run a different app.  Why should you decide for him which app he
wants.

It's of course a different question what are the priorities of these issues.

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