To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=50958 Issue #:|50958 Summary:|Make Navigator's use of screen space more efficient Component:|Word processor Version:|current Platform:|All URL:| OS/Version:|All Status:|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard:| Keywords:| Resolution:| Issue type:|ENHANCEMENT Priority:|P3 Subcomponent:|ui Assigned to:|mru Reported by:|jameswilson
------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jun 19 08:50:48 -0700 2005 ------- This is a RFE for OpenOffice version 3: I hope it's not either too early or too late! I have three suggestions for usability changes to the Navigator. I think that each of them should be easy to implement, and each would make Navigator more efficient in its use of space on screen. The Navigator is terrifically useful part of OpenOffice: it allows one to see the structure of complex documents at a glance, and move sections around very easily. But at the moment it uses up more screen space than is necessary, which means that one is forced to choose between having it open and docked the whole time, but having an inadequate amount of space for one's main text; or opening it only when one really needs it, but having the text larger. I don't think the user should have to make this choice! Here are three suggestions to improve its use of screen space. (1) Make the placement of the icons on the Navigator more intelligent. At the moment, the icons remain in two rows, even when the Navigator is docked to the top, and is the full width of the screen. Could I suggest that, when the Navigator is wide enough, the icons should rearrange to form a single row? (2) When you are in "Content View", don't indent the level one content. At the moment, if I'm on "content view", looking at headings, then the Navigator looks as follows: "Headings [-]", is at the top, and is flush with the left hand edge of the Navigator. However, the actual Headings below this are all indented by about a centimetre relative to this. As far as I can see, this is just a waste of screen space. Why not have Heading 1 start flush with the edge of the Navigator? Doing this would allow an extra word of each heading to be shown in Content View without increasing the screen space used. (Of course you'll want to continue to indent heading levels 2, and 3 relative to the level 1 headings. And there's a good reason to continue to indent in the current way when one is *not* in content view.). (3) Consider removing the bar at the bottom of the Navigator which allows you to select which document you want to navigate: I don't see that this is very useful in the ordinary course of events; and it takes up valuable screen space (especially when the Navigator is docked to the top). Perhaps this feature is only useful when dealing with Master Documents. It strikes me that it would be more intuitive to just assume that the user wants to navigate the document that has the current focus. James Wilson --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
