https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169214
--- Comment #3 from Telesto <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #2) > Different UI modes, different widgets, different challenges and ideas. Well, > mostly. This suggestion is for people who use the menus and toolbars and, > hopefully, like them :-) Nothing against Menu's. Ribbon isn't my cup of tea either, but might be a generational thing too. If you don't know anything else, the Ribbon feels natural. So some would say focus the limited resources on Ribbon. > I have also not seen this _exact_ widget implemented before, that's true. > But think about our styles sidebar, in hierarchical mode: Each row has the > main part, which is the name of the style: Double-click it, and you apply > it; but it also has the arrow indicating the open/closed state of the > descendent styles hierarchy - a separate part of the row, clickable for > different effect. True, it's not a menu, but it's already rather similar to > what I suggest. A) The menu's are surely hitting the limits of the sensible with the large amount of entry's. It becomes less productive having to read through all entry's and large distances to travel with the mouse to click certain entry. It feels a bit overwhelming at times B) I spoke to soon. LibreOffice does have a case which can do this already in some sense. File -> New opens a new document without selecting the type of document. Problem is more the inconsistency. I most cases it doesn't do anything C) Microsoft had the same feeling amount menu's containing to many entry's by default as it seems. The old MSO approach - before Ribbon - was showing the most used items or something in that direction. A video from YT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IE4LN3Gyas. Not a 100% succes either -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
