[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 106035] Contextual Group Toolbar

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106035

--- Comment #7 from andreas_k <kainz.a@gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #6)
> Do I understand you correct that somehow, perhaps on click at the sections,
> the menu opens, being a full replacement the main menu? Interesting idea,
> and easy to implement. The problem is that we have View, for instance, on
> the third position but you consider it (rightly) as less important and place
> it somewhere in the east. Not a big issue when the main menu is off. 

Yes you understood the concept correct instead of an "stupid" Label for the
groups I make the labels clickable and the full menu bar for e.g. view open.
And yes the sorting of the groups didn't follow the menu bar structure 100%.
I'm not sure if this is really that important and show also the origin menu bar
doesn't make sense at this concept. Awesome that this could be implement easy.

> But I
> wonder how you want to place all the buttons/icons on the toolbar. The space
> is limited. And what happens when the context switches, e.g. on click at an
> image?

That's the reason I start configure the ui file to have a running prototype
instead of an mockup.

> Your "always same layout for each group"-rule sounds reasonable, on the one
> hand. But a big item attract a lot attention (e.g. Fits law) and need a
> respective functionality. 

Hope you can help me to find the right big item. I'm also thinking on link to
the sidebar from the big item so by default only the grouped toolbar and when
you click on styles you get the styles and formatting sidebar.

> What I really like is the split of styles into
> paragraph and character styles. Although you didn't made the big button a
> context menu that could work really well. Many users may not be aware of the
> different styles.

Instead of the context menu I link with the big styles button to the sidebar
which is from my point of view better than 3 styles in the context menu. In
addition there is the drop down menu with the different styles.

> Big thumbs up from my side for the labels. That makes hardly to read icons
> easy to access.

this is one of the big feature of the contextual toolbar. So I'd like to use
this feature (see paste special)

I'll hope for as much feedback as possible to find a great solution. Thanks for
reporting.

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