[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 31481] [RFE] Split pane in same window for side-by-side reading of 2 docs

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31481

--- Comment #18 from Michael H. <bugzilla at prof-hitchcock.net> 2011-08-17 03:26:58 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #16)
> It is important that feature requests are clear, concise and concentrated on a
> -single- feature.

MM, you are absolutely right about this and the goal of this issue has become
muddled - I'm certainly guilty of being an accomplice to that. Sorry.

It was perhaps wrongly assumed that splitting a window for two independent
views of a single document would be essentially the same as splitting a window
for simultaneous views of two different documents ("proofreading mode"). The
window-handling in writer was considered to likely be dependent on the same
window handler in both cases.

If split windows for side-by-side viewing of two different documents is "at
least technically within the bounds of possibility" and split panes for
multiple views of the same document is not, then we need to not only open a
separate issue for the latter, but, as you say, somehow get to work on it. 

> what is needed is someone to do the work, knock up a hackish prototype
> patch (so we can discuss it on the development list), and/or fund a hacker to 
> do this.

MM, since you seem knowledgeable enough to evaluate the differences and
technical "bounds of possibility" between these two apparently closely related
requests, perhaps you could elucidate in what way they differ so that we can
move on at least one of these goals. Is this related to the implementation on
sfx2 mentioned in the first "See Also" link id=102365?

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