https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165474
Bug ID: 165474
Summary: No tabs must be out-of-view in the Style Editing
dialogs
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 24.8.5.2 release
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: LibreOffice
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
We have been going a transition from vertical to horizontal tabs in some
dialogs. I am ok with the transition in itself, but - in some cases, this
results in what I consider to be a completely unacceptable situation: Tabs
which get left out of the dialog, and can only be accessed by scrolling...
which moves other tabs out of view, and places all tabs in a different vertical
position.
This means:
* Another area of the dialog whose content is not fixed, forcing you to keep
track of it.
* You cannot develop "muscle memory" of how to get anywhere in the dialog -
since that always depends on the tabs scroll position.
* To decide where to look for something in the dialog, you can't just evaluate
all of the possible tabs - you have to make a mental list of them, and fill it
while scrolling, then remember it when you've scrolled all the way.
* ... in both directions if you started in the middle.
This is absolutely terrible. Horrid. I claim we must not allow this to
continue. We need to take a decision that this never happen. That any of the
alternatives is always superior to being in this situation.
Those could be:
* Less height for each tab header (i.e. tabs closer together).
* Using a list-ish control rather than tabs.
* Unifying related tabs.
* Two columns of of tab headers.
* Switching back to vertical tabs.
Yes, I know some of these are kind of cringy. But none of them are as bad as
having to scroll to releval tabs. If nothing else - the last option, of simply
reverting to the old layout, is very easy to implement, and its shortcomings
are far outweighed by the current situation.
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I've filed this as an LO-general bug, although for now the most prominent
example is the Paragraph Style editing dialog in Writer.
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