Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Not happy with LO Calc worksheet tabs in 4.4.1.2

Thank you for posting that. The discussion is very 
interesting and clearly explains why the scrollbar was 
moved. No rational was given for changing the shape of the 
tabs however.

Comment 29 by Tomaz Vajngerl: I have also made some visual 
changes to the tabs (rectangular, more plain look)...

That change has no purpose, why was it made? To put another 
nail in the coffin of skeuomorphic design? (Rhetorical, 
don't waste your time trying to answer.) Visual cues are 
important and I think the rectangular tabs suggest columns 
rather than overlapping worksheets. Sorry, that's just my 
opinion.

"A new building on our campus opened last year and featured 
many modern technologies, including very nice-looking glass 
doors through which you enter and exit the building. The 
problem is that the doors have identical handles on either 
side. The handles themselves are very attractive, but they 
don’t tell me what to do when I want to enter the 
building—should I push or pull the door? The handles on 
these particular doors suggest to me that they are made for 
grasping and pulling. However, the door goes in only one 
direction, and the very same handles appear on both sides of 
the door. Therefore, to enter the building, I have to use 
the handle to pull the door, and to exit, I have to use the 
identical type of handle to push the door. How would someone 
possibly know which way the door swings when approaching it?"

Continued here: 
http://www.humankinetics.com/excerpts/excerpts/Push-or-Pull

On the positive side, I love the new icons on the tool bars 
especially the one for inserting a chart. Also, I've been 
using and promoting LO since the beginning. I started with 
Open Office some moons ago and when Oracle messed everything 
up I switched over to LO and love it. So, I apologize for 
the rant. (My wife says I'm getting old and grumpy. Maybe 
she's right.)

-Bill

On 3/22/2015 6:48 PM, V Stuart Foote wrote:
> wdrago wrote
> > All,
> >
> > I just upgraded to 4.4.1.2 (Windows) and I am not happy to
> > see that the worksheet selection buttons now look like
> > columns instead of folder tabs. Was there any logic behind
> > this change or is this change for the sake of change? How
> > does this make Calc more useable? What problem were users
> > having that this change solved?
> >
> > Sorry for the rant, but I am getting tired of unnecessary
> > changes. I see this happening in all software, not just LO.
> > I do appreciate the product and all the hard work that goes
> > into it.
> >
> > -Bill
> Sorry, but fully shown in the  4.4 release notes
> <https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.4#Tab_changes>   posted
> since January.
>
> /Tab changes
>
> Sheet tabs (Calc) and layer tabs (Draw) were moved to an independent row and
> are no longer displayed next to the horizontal scrollbar. As many visual
> styles under Linux (in addition to the default OS X configuration) use very
> thin scrollbars, these rendered the tabs too small to be clickable and, most
> importantly, readable.
>
> The tabs have an updated, flatter look./
>
>
> You can read the rational and dev actions on  tdf#36772
> <https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36772>  --UI: Sheet
> tabs appear too small because LibreOffice has problems with certain themes
> or does not force a minimim hight for tabs
>
> And some counter discussion on  tdf#87684
> <https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87684>  -- UI: Calc
> sheet tabs and horizontal scroll bar are now wasting twice the space
>
> Point is, this is nothing new or exceptional, the change was implemented Aug
> 2014.   If you'd like to avoid such unpleasantness, perhaps you should
> invest a little of your own time and check out some of the more current
> builds spun out by the project TinderBox's at
> http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/
>
>
>
>
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