Hi List,

I agree that the conent (no content) is not good. What we want the user to do is to select an object or create/insert one, so it would be nice to offer just that. It is a suggestion, but offering insertin of objects may be best. Possibilities for this:

(1) Gallery
(2) Panel which offers to start DrawObject construction, like in the drawing toolbar

We have a panel for (1), but the context switch would need to change the TabBar (instead of reacting on context switch and changing the panels dependent of content).

We have no panel for (2), but it may be not too difficult to crreate one. Wouldn't it be nice to have/show that panel for other apps, too? It could show the draw object creators as ToolBars with useful groups, but some of this vertically, thus offering a much more direct selection which object creation to start than the current Draw toolbar offers...

Maybe too much for 4.0, but...

Sincerely,
    Armin

On 24.04.2013 09:37, Andre Fischer wrote:
On 23.04.2013 21:43, RGB ES wrote:
 From enhancement request 122049

https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=122049

With the sidebar enabled, on a Draw document with no object selected the
Properties deck shows no controls and only displays the following text

"Properties for the task that you are performing are not available in the
sidebar at this time"

This text is a bit misleading, because it is not clear that you only need
to select an object to see something there.

I'm no native English speaker so I'm not able to provide a good alternative
for that text. Something like

"Please, select an object to access its properties"

comes to my mind, but for sure there is a better wording. Suggestions?

Regards
Ricardo

Thanks for starting this discussion.  What about this:

"Properties for the task that you are performing are not available for the current selection"

-Andre



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