https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161436

Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #6 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #5)
> This is work in progress during one of the current GSoC projects. Please
> find the duplicate and annotate this ticket yourself.

I searched all of the Writer-Comments bugs and could not find a proper dupe.
But - bug 38295 is about the same problem; with this bug arguing for a
particular solution. Would you like the discussion to be moved over there?
Also, GSoC project link please?

(In reply to Stéphane Guillou (stragu) from comment #4)

> The only way I can imagine this is by having the new comment sidebar being
> undockable to be placed wherever the user wants, like the navigator.

I think I'm opposed to this. You see, the sidebar never holds part of the
document; and comments are part of the document. So I don't think it's
legitimate to edit comments in the sidebar.

(Although I can't deny that a vertical area for commet editing will have appeal
for many.)

> I can't
> imagine contributors developing and maintaining a _third_ way to view
> comments.

1. Then just this way please :-)  Why? Because bubbles are alredy placed
vertically. Horizontal is what's really missing.
2. Actually, development-work-wise, the extra work for another mode should be
far less than the work for the second mode.

> Some questions:
> - the comment panel is now resizable, so can accommodate more text - isn't
> that sufficient?;

No, just try resizing the comment area in the document I've attached. There's
still basically just as much overhead due to the bubbles; and each comment gets
scrolled separately; and you get large mostly-empty bubbles so, space is
wasted; plus if you enlarge significantly you may not be able to see the entire
width of the actual document etc. So no.

> - how do you envisage a bottom panel linking comments to their anchor in the
> document? Or by "I don't want to see silly dashed arrows", you mean you
> don't want to see _any_ linking?

Highlighting: The commented area highlight color changes when you're editing
its comment and perhaps vice-versa. Configuration for turning this off perhaps
for those who find it distracting. And no dashed lines from balloons to the
comment.

> - do you have an example / screenshot of an application that does it this
> way?

MS Word's reviewing pane (at least, what it used to be at some point). Will add
a screenshot.

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