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Writer: Form tab: Should we rename it? #10103

Open pedropintosilva opened 2 months ago

pedropintosilva commented 2 months ago

This was first brought up by @asjacandic and @vmiklos

Form Tab

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We use ''Content Controls'' and ''Form Controls'' interchangeably in some of our communication. In the UI we have a tab labelled "Form" and within that we 6 buttons (5 that insert content controls and 1 that opens the properties of the selected content controls)

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Conceptually, I would say Form is the big group and content controls is a type of controls within form. For example in LibreOffice there are other types of controls but in Collabora Online we only have content controls. Elsewhere, GDocs seems to don't have support for that and the same goes for MS Word online. Nevertheless users seems to be expecting "Form" as a first keyword when scanning both when using any other tool (since they normally have dedicated "[insert name company] Forms" software and when using the interface.

Other desktop/offline apps (I think) include a section called Controls with a helpful tooltip "Rich Text Content Control"

pedropintosilva commented 2 months ago

I would like to hear opinions.

From my side, I'm not sure changing the label would be an improvement. Form seems to be quite easy to understand. Plus the very first button within that tab starts with Rich Text on top of that we only have content controls in Collabora Online so, it seems better to opt for simplicity here.

Additionally, we could change the tooltips of each of those buttons. Currently Rich Text, Checkbox, etc buttons display the exact same string in the tooltip which is redundant. I would prefer to inject there the key word as a suffix Content Control.

vmiklos commented 2 months ago

FWIW, Word has this functionality hidden in the ribbon by default. Once you enable the Developer tab, it has sections, one of the sections is Controls. Then the individual buttons have tooltips like "Rich Text Content Control".

I don't think we want a developer tab without multiple sections, so if you would rename to Controls, that would make sense to me. Other than that, this is really your domain. :-)