https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31481
--- Comment #32 from Dmitry Pashkevich <dpa...@gmail.com> --- Yes, it's a very needed feature. To be honest I don't really have a lot to say here - it's just so obvious to me that it should be there. It's indispensible when working on big documents (e.g. a report or a scientific paper) - you often need to jump between sections of your document (e.g. add/edit a bibliographic entry or refer to another part of the document without scrolling back and forth - that's really annoying). The "split pane" functionality would let you do that efficiently without losing your main context - you are working on a section, and then, while staying where you are, you can quickly open a different section in a separate pane without getting too distracted and without having to scroll back to pick up where you left off. Opening the same document in a separate window is a workaround and definitely helps but it's not the same - this way you waste more screen space and you have to manually manage two windows (you don't always need them). With "split pane", the panes are really easy to manage and it's super natural - just drag that line on top of scroll bar - and you get another pane. When you don't need it anymore - you just drag it back upwards and it's gone. If you had two windows open, you'd have to 1) close the other window; 2) resize the remaining window; and do this every time you need to temporarily jump to another section without losing context. I'm really surprised this feature has so little attention. Many text editors and IDEs and have similar functionality and it's long been proved useful. And while these programs are created for rather different fields of work, they all have one thing with common with word processors - **you work with DOCUMENTS**. IMO, whenever you work with documents, there is always place for split panes and the feature will always give a productivity boost. When I found out about LO 4.0, the first thing I started searching for in the changelogs is this feature. Sadly, it's still not there but I still hope it'll land. Someone in OOo thread even suggested a money bounty to whoever implements it. I would be happy to donate too, just please someone do it! (In reply to comment #31) > This is not a new bug, but an old ten years bug since the days of OOo. > Please refer to the OOo bugzilla issues 19291. > > It would go away unless someone works on it. It is still the same in the new > LO version 4. > > Can someone confirm that this feature is a much needed feature that should > be in LO yesterday? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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