[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 33603] Presenter notes should be available in normal view as a scrolling pane

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33603

--- Comment #25 from Jean-François Fortin Tam <nekohayo at gmail.com> ---
Created attachment 154370
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Mockup of a vertical scrolling notes layout reusing the standard LibreOffice
sidebar expander widgets

As I stated in my original bug report above, I believe an approach with a
"horizontal" notes pane (bottom bar) would be inferior to one where we use a
vertical sidebar, for three simple reasons:

* Computer screens are widescreen (unlike the 90's where PowerPoint's bottom
bar came from) or even ultra-wide (one of my screens is 21:9), so I have more
UI pixels to spare on that dimension than in the other.
* Presenter notes are often meant to be bulletpoint-style short sentences, they
are better-suited to a vertical layout (they would "waste" the space of a
horizontal layout and require very tedious scrolling). And super wide sentences
suck for reading and wouldn't even remotely resemble what would actually be
shown on the presenter screen, anyway.
* The technical implementation would be easier, because you wouldn't have to
create a whole new pane widget, you just reuse the existing sidebar and add a
new component in there, which should make it relatively straightforward.

Attaching a mockup that illustrates how this would actually look like in
practice.

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