Bug 156307

Summary: Add Slider functionality to Tabbed Notebook Bar for Data and Tools
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Chirag.saini766
Component: CalcAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA    
Severity: enhancement CC: Chirag.saini766, libreoffice-ux-advise, vsfoote
Priority: medium Keywords: needsUXEval
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
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Bug Blocks: 107237    
Attachments: Image showing ribbons get out of window

Description Chirag.saini766 2023-07-16 07:13:52 UTC
Created attachment 188392 [details]
Image showing ribbons get out of window

Would be great to see similar GUI as Office 365 for ribbons, When using Libre Calc with custom screen size, I keep seeing groups under ribbons missing and being replaced with the arrow switch. Which in turns leads out of the Calc window screen when clicked.(Screenshot attached).

Something like a scaled down version of ribbons would be better GUI.
Comment 1 V Stuart Foote 2023-07-16 21:57:22 UTC
Plese explain what O365 does with its Ribbon API? Some sort of filmstrip "slider" to move hidden controls into view keeping the same.

Otherwise looking at Desktop builds of Excel 2019 and 2021, MS uses API calls to progressively collapse each of the Ribbon groupings individually in response to narrowing app frame.  LibreOffice has no such capability.

Rather, because of the lightweight framework used for LibreOffice's MUFFIN XML assemblages, the exposure chevrons simply toggle any hidden controls visible in a pop-open bar. There is some priority set as to what is hidden as width is reduced, but minimal control. It is suitable to task cross platform and does not require much native code to function the same for all builds.

I don't see much utility to implementing a new UX paradigm, and for sure not simply to chase a MS gimmick.

IMHO => WF
Comment 2 Heiko Tietze 2023-07-17 08:52:46 UTC
Looking at the screenshot it seems to overlapping part to the left is what the OP bothers. The notebookbars have implemented a mechanism to collapse sections into the expander right which opens per click on the chevron (>> - icon). And that works nicely for me (Linux, fresh).

Please confirm/comment and add the version info.
Comment 3 Heiko Tietze 2023-08-25 07:52:34 UTC
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #2)
> Please confirm/comment and add the version info.

Feel free to reopen with more details.