https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79554
Priority: medium
Bug ID: 79554
Assignee: [email protected]
Summary: The default location of the drawing toolbar shows bad
UX
Severity: normal
Classification: Unclassified
OS: All
Reporter: [email protected]
Hardware: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Version: unspecified
Component: Drawing
Product: LibreOffice
I've just installed LibreOffice Draw and started the program for the first time
in my life.
It took me 10 minutes (including research on the web and watching tutorials) to
find out how to draw a line or rectangle.
Turns out, there is a drawing toolbar at the bottom of the screen.
This is really bad user experience. No sane user (tech-savvy or casual user)
would look for the most important actionable items on the bottom of the screen,
where usually the most unnecessary information is gathered (e.g. status bars,
word count, page numbers, etc.)
I asked three colleagues (including computer science majors) who have also had
no experience with LibreOffice Draw to please draw a line for me. They all took
more than a couple of minutes to achieve the goal and were becoming quite
frustrated doing so. Instead of finding the right drawing tool they randomly
clicked through the toolbar items in the top toolbar (e.g. line properties,
etc.).
Many user interaction tests have shown that the most important items in
computer programs and web pages are best placed in the top / top left region.
Please move the drawing toolbar to the top, or alternatively to the left edge
of the screen (like where it is in Dia or Photoshop).
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