+1 Nigel Verity. The illustration may appeal to a lot of people. I know a lot of people see LO suite is "old-fashioned"
I am using Notebook bar for a long time now and it works fine for me. I am not sure if the developers see some hidden problem with it for keeping it experimental. Sincerely, Sreekanth V K Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Friday, November 9, 2018 5:53 PM, Nigel Verity <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I am a newcomer to the LibreOffice marketing group so, first, greetings to > everybody. > > Now that the Notebook bar is no longer going to be an experimental feature > perhaps the question of the default setting needs to be addressed. > > When encouraging somebody to migrate from MS Office, if the first > configuration they see is the classic menu bar then I can well imagine the > reaction being that LO is "old fashioned". Defaulting to the Notebookbar > should create an instant feeling of familiarity for such users. However, if > that were to become the default we would be reinforcing the sense that LO is > an MS Office clone, without emphasising the configurability advantage that LO > has. > > A lot of people still prefer the classic menu bar and find it far more > intuitive. I am one of them. Perhaps on first run after installation the user > could be presented with a welcome screen which illustrates the visual > differences between the two menu types, and allows the user to select one or > the other to be their personal default from that point onwards. > > Just a thought. > > Nige > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ > Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
