I think the problem is that we need to clearly define what goes into the sidebar and stick to it. Basically, it needs to be designed. I would propose one "home" tab, a "Styles" tab, a "Navigation" tab, and an "insert". The home tab would have a quick styles selector, bold/italic/underline/highlighting/bullets/etc, paragraph properties, and page formatting options. The "home" tab would also change contextually based off of what was highlighted/edited. For example, when a chart is being edited, the contextual options would take the place of the formatting options in the "home" tab, much like they do now in the formatting toolbar. It might offer room for /limited/ customization, like the adding of buttons/toolbars in a designated place.
All in all, I think the sidebar is an issue of implementation. It offers potential benefits, but it needs to be designed to work as an integrated part of the LibreOffice UI in order to make sense. Daniel -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/The-Sidebar-Problem-tp4094331p4096828.html Sent from the Design mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
