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Summary

Find a better toolbar layout for LibreOffice modules.

Status

Call for Proposals

Analyzing Proposals

Shaping Tentative Design

Implementation in Progress

Implemented

Scope

In Scope	Out of Scope
Reposition current toolbars Hide/show buttons in current toolbars Move commands between toolbars

Discussion

Design List

Proposals

Proposal by Mirek2

Mockups

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  Standard Toolbar's HIM: Milestone 1

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  Standard Toolbar's HIM: Milestone 2

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  Standard Toolbar's HIM: Possible Future Development ("associate with" = "add to the toolbar relating to")

Toolbar Properties

Dynamic Toolbar Size

Toolbars should resize dynamically, so that space is divided up evenly across toolbars on the same row.

Hidden Items Menu (HIM)

There should be a flag for each toolbar to include a menu at its end with the commands marked as "hidden".

Possible Refinements

While not necessary for the first milestone, it would be nice if toolbar items accessed from the "Hidden Items" menu could have the same kind of functionality as within the toolbar (split buttons, submenus, popovers, and shortcut labels).

Command Reorganization

Standard Toolbar

In each of the modules, the Standard toolbar should have the "Hidden Items Menu" flag on and should show only Save, Undo, and Redo by default. It should appear to the right of the Text toolbar.

The reasoning behind this is to streamline the current toolbars, get the non-contextual commands out of the way (similarly to Office's File menu or Android/elementary/Chrome's action overflow/AppMenu/Tools menu), and to move toward a UI not dependent on a menu bar.

Text Toolbar

The Formatting toolbar should be renamed to the "Text toolbar" and its scope should be expanded to text in general, not just formatting, just like the other contextual toolbars. "Sort Ascending", "Sort Descending", and "Edit Hyperlink" buttons should be added to this toolbar.

Drawing Toolbar

Given that the Drawing toolbar already includes Insert image, it makes sense to expand its scope a little and provide easy access to insertion commands. "Paste", "Draw Table" and "Insert" should be added to the beginning of this toolbar, with "Insert image" moved right after "Paste", so that these insertion commands are in the same group. "Fontwork Gallery" should be hidden by default.

Relevant Art

• Android Action Bar