https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87829
Bug ID: 87829
Summary: Keep sidebars as separately attachable elements
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 4.4.0.1 rc
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: UI
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Created attachment 111469
--> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=111469&action=edit
Panel docking areas
The description for the new sidebar
(https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.4#Sidebar_changes) sounds
like an attempt to force all panels into a new layout, i.e. a single sidebar.
If this is your intention, then to me this would feel like a backwards step in
functionality and flexibility of the UI, because in complex documents I really
need to have both, a 'Styles & Formatting' panel and the 'Navigator' panel in
separate sidebars (or docking areas, whichever is the word for it). Almost
every information I need about the document is available at a glimpse, without
the need to switch a view through a hotkey or the mouse.
Especially the 'Data Sources' Panel would not fit into a vertical sidebar, it
only makes sense as a horizontally attached panel (otherwise you can hardly
read the contents of a table or a query).
Please keep LO's UI flexible enough to let the user decide how his individual
workplace looks like. It's always good to have a choice.
I attached a screenshot of my current writer UI layout, to illustrate my
explanations.
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