On 07/05/2018 08:38 AM, Philip Jackson wrote: > I tried the Notebookbar after looking at the Fedora article. It worked > just as advertised and I managed to return to default using the '3 small > horizontal lines' icon on the rhs of the ribbon. I was using LO 6.0.0.2 > (I think) > > I wasn't impressed by the Notebookbar - it seems to be variations on a > theme started by MS some years ago and immediately followed by some > other software houses just like it was the fashion of the day. The > introduction of the ribbon by Avid Sibelius raised howls of protest from > the veteran users of Sibelius - but that's just because we're mostly > very conservative and don't like change. > > Yesterday, I upgraded LO to 6.0.5.2 and took the opportunity to recheck > Notebookbar. Out of the 6 variants, the first 2 'Contextual Groups' and > 'Contextual Simple' don't show the little icon. The next 2 variants, > 'Tabbed' and 'Tabbed Compact' do show the icon. > > The last two, 'Grouped bar full' and 'Group bar compact' don't show the > icon BUT they do have an item at the far right called 'Menu' which has a > drop down which allows you to toggle on the Menu Bar - and to select > the different variants of Notebookbar. > > The number of combinations seem to be numerous. I may have missed a > combination but it seemed to me that although I could turn off the > regular MenuBar in the Grouped Bar full and compact variants, it still > appeared in the 2 tabbed variants. > > This ribbon seems good to pass away a few spare minutes. For a new user, > it may provide something of interest but I think I'll stay with the old > menu bar. > > Philip
My observations and sentiments exactly. Virgil -- 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/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
