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Re:LibreOffice: The Next Five Years by TheChaplain on Friday July 10, 2020 @07:24AM (#23790373)
I disagree.

The number of times I had to use "Tell me what you want to do"-field is on a stupid level compared to the rich toolbar and extensive menus that existed pre-2007.

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Re:LibreOffice: The Next Five Years by XorNot on Friday July 10, 2020 @09:03AM (#23791037)
I mean ironically that's actually a much better solution - I love Jetbrains "search everywhere" field in Idea to find specific commands quickly.

So why in the heck the ribbon even needs to exist is baffling - just make a command search/command line input, and then if it's literally on a toolbar on screen, highlight it for me (configurably) so I as a new user know what to click on next time.

The ribbon is just somehow, always exactly wrong.

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Re:LibreOffice: The Next Five Years by kevin_thibedeau on Friday July 10, 2020 @07:08PM (#23797663)
Great news. Now we have a search bar slapped into the middle of the title bar like an albatross. Nicely wedged in between all the other nonstandard title bar chrome.
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