https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81132
Priority: medium Bug ID: 81132 CC: jmadero....@gmail.com, libreoffice-ux-advise@lists.freedesktop.org, michael.me...@collabora.com Assignee: libreoffice-b...@lists.freedesktop.org Summary: Removal of formatting options from the right-click context menu Severity: normal Classification: Unclassified OS: All Reporter: philip...@hotmail.com Hardware: Other Status: UNCONFIRMED Version: 4.2.5.2 release Component: Writer Product: LibreOffice I would like to propose the removal of the following right-click context menu formatting options: Font, Size, Style, Alignment, Line Spacing. I'm making this suggestion because the same formatting options are already available in the toolbar, the sidebar, in Format > Paragraph dialog, and in the right-click Paragraph dialog. In addition to formatting options being available in so many places, very few users actually use it, but for some strange reason it is put at the top of the context menu. Here are the stats for the usage of these formatting options, as taken from OOo's tracking results < https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Tracking_results > for writer. 1) Single Line Spacing - 8,700 ( 22.58% ) 2) 1.5 Line Spacing - 6,501 ( 16.87% ) 3) Strike Through - 3,698 ( 9.60% ) 4) Bold - 3,620 ( 9.40% ) 5) Double Line Spacing - 2,921 ( 7.58% ) 6) Paragraph Center - 2,842 ( 7.38% ) 7) Shadowed - 2,249 ( 5.84% ) 8) Outline - 2,000 ( 5.19% ) 9) Underline - 1,927 ( 5.00% ) 10) Paragraph Left - 1,384 ( 3.59% ) 11) Italic - 1,116 ( 2.90% ) 12) Paragraph Right - 889 ( 2.31% ) 13) Overline - 534 ( 1.39% ) 14) Change Font Name - 68 ( 0.18% ) 15) Change Font Size - 38 ( 0.10% ) You can see from these results that the most popular used group is one not found in the formatting toolbar, i.e. line spacing. The three line spacing options account for 47% of the total usage and 22% of the total usage is taken up by the next group - style options not found in the formatting toolbar (strike through, shadow, outline, overline). 17% is taken up by style options found in the formating toolbar and 13% is taken up by the alignment options. Presently there is a benefit of keeping the Line Spacing and Style options, because they do fill a void in the formatting toolbar, which i had planned to suggest their inclusion into the standard toolbar once i finished my toolbar revamp. It would be one button for text effects (shadow, outline) and a second for line spacing (single, 1.15, 1.5, double). To put the above statistics into perspective, here are the top 10 right-click options. 1) Paste - 1,119,606 2) Copy - 592,585 3) Cut - 225,137 4) Picture - 47,078 5) Paragraph - 41,302 6) Clear Formatting - 30,401 7) Remove Hyperlink - 29,392 8) Table - 21,493 9) Character - 20,466 10) Page - 16,921 The major advantage of a smaller/compact right click menu in writer, something already present in calc, is that if the context menu appears above or below the mouse pointer due to its position on the screen, it will still be faster to get the number 1 right-click function, PASTE. Another advantage of removing them is that the limitation of the Font option wont need to be fixed - bug 34085. :) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Libreoffice-ux-advise mailing list Libreoffice-ux-advise@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-ux-advise