[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 95402] TEMPLATE MANAGER: Improve Save as Template workflow

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95402

Yousuf (Jay) Philips <philipz85@hotmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #5 from Yousuf (Jay) Philips <philipz85@hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to Octavio Alvarez from comment #4)
> The icon is *the most important change* among all that I suggested becuase,
> as I said on IRC: it currently sends a wrong visual message.

I'm assuming you mean it sends the wrong visual message without the icon.

> Bear me with this thought: It gave me a choice of templates and I had a
> 'Save' button. I don't want to save it to any of those. By having a choice
> of templates I expect to click on one of those and then clicking 'Save' to
> perform my will.

That is quite opposite to the universal workflow of saving anything. When you
open the Save or Save As dialog, the primary thing is to select a folder if
neede, which may have existing files in it, and then type a new file name.

> I can't predict what the 'Save' button does before clicking it (a priori).
> It currently turns out that clicking 'Save' actually asks for something.
> This is completely opposite to the currently existing, universal workflow of
> saving *anything*.

Yes as there isnt a filename field to type in the template name, a dialog
appears after clicking the 'Save' button. This isnt that outside of the norm
that it would confuse users.

> At least, when a new 'Save as new template' icon is introduced as one of the
> options, it will visually guide me to click on it because that's what I want
> to do and then think 'Ok, I selected something, now I must find a button to
> perform the save'.

I find this quite confusing that if i wanted to save something, i would have to
preselect an item already in the list of file/template names and then click a
Save button. Maybe the simplest thing is to do would be to change the 'Save'
button to 'Save Template Here'.

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