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--- Comment #3 from Tomaz Vajngerl <quikee@gmail.com> ---
It is not about offense but if we should take you seriously or not. I usually
listen to users and try to find a compromise that would work for them but I
don't take any user seriously that ends every sentence with an exclamation mark
or has a passive-aggressive tone.

(In reply to Alex from comment #2)
I did not intend any offense in the enhancement I submitted!  Please note
that I said "please" before each request, and meant it genuinely!  However,
I stand behind the opinion I expressed that scarce resources had been
applied to the wrong priorities in this case.  

I worked on this in my free time to improve the tab bar in Calc so instead of
this I could go running or climbing instead, so no resources were wasted. 
There are also no priorities for "features" in LO. Volunteers work on things
they find interesting.  

I really fail to comprehend the reasons for the changes I "vented" about in
the original submittal. If you have scores of sheets in a workbook, the
utility of going quickly to the beginning or end of that tab sequence is
used frequently.  Requiring two hands (Ctrl + mouse-click) should never be a
requirement for any request (an alternate short-cut maybe, but never
required).  If those two button controls were removed to make way for
another ability to add a new sheet, then the trade-off was flawed.  How
difficult is it to right-click anywhere on the tab bar to pop-up a window
giving you the option of saying how many new sheets you want, where to put
them, and what name to call them?  How many times do people add sheets in
the first place, nor not want to give them a name besides "Sheet_" when they
do?  If there are users craving such a button, then I wouldn't want to deny
them that wish; but, not if a required  tradeoff is the loss of the "First
Sheet" and "Last Sheet" buttons.   If you keep the new sheets button, then
at least place it at the other end of the tab bar, where it won't get
confused with the scroll buttons and clicked accidentally.   Please note
that if I could fix this myself for my own desires, I would, but as far as I
know, I can't customize the tab bar controls to add back what someone else
decided was superfluous and removed.

Now that scrollbar is in a different position and sheets have a lot of space,
the need for this buttons has decreased so this was my reason to remove them or
better - combine the functions into "Left", "Right" buttons. Instead of "ctrl +
mouse click" I could make it a "double click" if this is a solution to the
rant.

The "add new sheet" button was moved from "Right" because it was implemented as
a hack with a new sheet and was not a real button before. Now on the right it
is also in a consistent place and not hidden from the user. 

Any
developers who have time on their hands should go tackle the Basic IDE User
Interface!

No, thank you.

Anyway, I'll change what the UX team decides we should do about this.

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