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Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Full Text Issue Listing |
| Summary: | menu: File->New is very difficult to select when... | ||||||
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| Product: | ui | Reporter: | gregjohnson <greg.johnson> | ||||
| Component: | ui | Assignee: | AOO issues mailing list <issues> | ||||
| Status: | CONFIRMED --- | QA Contact: | |||||
| Severity: | Trivial | ||||||
| Priority: | P3 | CC: | issues, matthias.mueller-prove, pavel, utomo.prawiro | ||||
| Version: | OOo 1.1 RC4 | Keywords: | oooqa, usability | ||||
| Target Milestone: | AOO PleaseHelp | ||||||
| Hardware: | PC | ||||||
| OS: | Linux, all | ||||||
| Issue Type: | ENHANCEMENT | Latest Confirmation in: | --- | ||||
| Developer Difficulty: | --- | ||||||
| Issue Depends on: | |||||||
| Issue Blocks: | 30610, 30615 | ||||||
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Description
gregjohnson
2003-09-14 10:23:08 UTC
Confirmed. Yes, I suggest, we can add New Text documents below new in file menu of Text New Spreadsheet documents below new in file menu of calc ETC I do not think this should be implemented. If it is, the menu is about 20cm... Not an option. hi guys, a related issue is the artificial & confusing distinction between New (Text|Spreadsheet|Drawing|etc) and New Templates & Documents. New (Text|Spreadsheet|etc) should simply be instances of the Template & Document class. Have a look at ms word file->new... for comparison. Advantage of OOo is that you can get a New "Anything" from what ever app you are in, and the "Set default" command is just what you want to make any template/document the default "New Spreadsheet" (better than ms who insist that the default text doc is always called "normal"), but ms has a more consistent approach to File->New... & Templates. Suggestion, File->New pops up the Templates & Documents dialog. The Templates & Documents dialog is re-worked slightly as follows: * the left hand navigation panel is either made a tree or some other hierarchial ui element, with the top level items being Templates, My Documents, Samples. * 2nd level elements are managed as per the current Organise & Template Management dialog * Items from "New Document" are moved to "Templates->Default" * On entering the Template & Documents dialog, focus is set to Templates->Default, showing items from the old "New Document" item, ie Business Cards, Drawing, Formula, Labels, Master Document, Presentation, Spreadsheet, Text Document" This removes the current confusion between "new simple documents" & new "templates & documents" & gives access to the deafult simple documents with one click. I will attach a mock up of the proposal. regards, greg johnson Created attachment 9434 [details]
Suggested Template & Document Dialog mockup
I think we must make easier to access what people need to use many times. Open> new is one of the recent things people use. Maybe good solution need to wait til 2.0, but for amoment we need to find solution for this. 1. add 1 new menu New Text documents below new in file menu of OOo Writer New Spreadsheet documents below new in file menu of OOo calc This is only additional one menu for each application, so it will not add so much things in the menu length. 2. Limiting the file name length in the file menu recent list. the limit must be decided so it still easy to read. other improvements i think need to be in 2.0 SBA: Reassigned to Bettina Haberer from the User Experience team for consideration. Hello Matthias, as you are working on restructuring some menu, please take over this ease of use issue. Thank you. Hi Mathias, this one fits to our brief discussion a moment ago. Carsten, please make an estimation of the effort for this issue. CD: A recent file list which is part of a sub menu can be implemented using the new popup menu controller feature. I think this can be done within 1-2 days. MMP will provide a spec that says, "let's make a sub-menu" . spec started at http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/menus/FileMenu.sxw . . shortened summary spec is approved by iTeam: http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/menus/FileMenu.sxw created 2 IMPL tasks. i31348 is to implement the menu changes (submenu and new item order in File menu) and i31349 to implement the functionality changes of the PickList as decribed in the spec http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/menus/FileMenu.sxw sub tasks for OOo2 done. This root task moves on to OOoLater. I am no longer officially active on OOo. Please take over. |