[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 91781] Reorganization of the menu bar for Writer

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91781

--- Comment #39 from Yousuf (Jay) Philips <philipz85@hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #37)
> Currently on the View menu the Layout actions--Print Layout, Web Layout, and
> HTML Source (when editing an LO .html document)--are all _editing_ modes.
> Placement there suggests that Print Preview is also an editing mode. It is
> not and so might not belong as placed. 

Considering them to be editing modes isnt correct because if you are in print
or web layout and deactivate editing (Edit > Edit Mode), then you are only
viewing the document in the particular layout.

> But if the preview actually reflected how document would be "rendered",
> responding to the currently specified printer settings I can see the
> argument for that--or as Heiko suggests better in a Previews grouping on the
> View menu. 
>
> Status quo, as a Preview of an action to Print it is an _output_. Those
> actions currently all reside on the File menu, where grouping with the Print
> and Printer Settings would remain logical. Where, besides the cluster of
> Print actions, the other Export _output_ buttons are located. Along with the
> "Preview in Web Browser" that could logically be repositioned on the View
> menu as Heiko suggests.

Spoke with Heiko yesterday about 'Preview in Web Browser' and it behaves
similar to exporting the document as an html and opening the file in a browser,
or taken another way - Send to Web Browser, which isnt a way of viewing a
document inside of LO, like you can with HTML Source.

> As a sidebar--this incremental process of UI/UX transition will simply take
> time to sort through. It won't really affect the 5.0 release. But these
> major UI changes should have been done prior to that major milestone, they
> instead will affect 5.1 or even a 6.0--IMO for issues of the UI we really
> should have remained at 4.x and have a 4.5 incremental pending, calling it a
> 5.0 release is premature but guess that is moot. We definitely need more
> folks working actively at this--reviewing the daily builds, commenting on,
> and committing appropriate changes. 

It would have been nice to have focused on improving the menu bar earlier but i
had to clean up the context menus first to gather many of the missing commands
found in the context menus that werent in the menu bar. The ESC has okayed
pushing this into 5.0 as its a major release and of course it can be polished
during the 5.x cycle.

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