[Bug 106316] New sidebar deck for comments

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106316

--- Comment #8 from V Stuart Foote <vsfoote at libreoffice.org> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #6)
Again from bug 158647 where J22Gim wrote

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The functionality being suggested is not to navigate through the comments but
to comfortably work with them (mostly reply to them) in a space that is not
constrained by the margins.

The pop-up functionality may be useful only for the visibility of the comment,
but it does not bring any benefit to the management of comments as a Review
Pane (where you can easily go back and forth between the comment, your reply,
other comments, other replies, etc).

Maybe it is worth mentioning why this is very important (and other office
suites have noted) and might not be immediately evident. In 'normal' academic
writing (eg. scientific articles), one of the keystones is the review process.
This process consists of a number of people ('reviewers') adding comments to
your text, asking for clarifications, suggesting different things, etc.
Addressing those comments is a whole task itself. It is not just "navigate,
then accept/reject" as in 'Track changes'. It requires that you thoughtfully
consider all the comments, and the reply in a organized fashion where the final
(new) manuscript has to make sense and be an improved version. It is not
uncommon that this process of 'reviewing' is equivalent (in terms of amount of
work) to generating a new manuscript (hopefully better than the previous one,
and taking into account all comments). Some comments include quite a few
previous statements to situate the reader on where the comment is going to.
Sometimes comments from different reviewers are contradictory (and many times
there are not written successively). So the person that has to manage all the
comments really needs a dedicated space as the Reviewing Pane (or comments
panel, whatever name is finally decided). It is very different from GIT-like
workflow where you change some lines and then can see clearly what the changes
are and decide if accept or not. It is like writing the whole software every
time with new user requirements!.

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