https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114886
Bug ID: 114886
Summary: [Sidebar: Styles and formatting] Implementing the
styles views as filters
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: UI
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Description:
I don’t know if this applies to most users, but at least in my case, I mostly
use either the “hierarchical” view or “used styles”, and often switch between
both (as I work with a lot of small documents, so my typical styles often
aren’t already listed in “used styles”). I experienced several drawbacks here:
• “Hierarchical” is a view mode, with all other entries being filters in
contrast (⇒ sloppy implementation?).
• Therefore, displaying “used styles” in a hierarchical view isn’t possible.
• Switching between two views is quite cumbersome, because you have to perform
three actions for every transition:
– Opening the view modes ComboBox.
– Searching the wanted display mode.
– Selecting it.
For solving all the above mentioned issues, I think it’s a good idea to split
the current implementation into two parts (like the MVC principle):
• The main view
– Lists all available styles.
– Controls all view properties, like one-level vs. hierarchical, and things
like preview.
• A filter layer
– Just filters the style list of the main view.
– Doesn’t affect the view properties.
Properties & characteristics:
• The sidebar should provide a simple switch for toggling between one-level or
hierarchical view. Maybe like the current checkbox for activation of previews,
or better via just an icon-switch – like most settings inside the properties
pane of the sidebar are implemented.
• The filter “used styles” should be a general filter on top of all the other
filters (as this filter is useful in combination with other filters) and
therefore also should be accessible via a switch in the sidebar.
• Optional: Advanced filter selection
– If the window height isn’t that tall (or if the list contains a lot of
entries, which would take over most space of the pane area), the filters should
be accessible via a ComboBox (like it is implemented now).
– If the window is tall enough (or if the list is small enough), the filter
selectors should be shown as a full list at the bottom, so that the users can
switch between filters via just one click.
Opinions?
Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:
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Expected Results:
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Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: No
Additional Info:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/57.0
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