[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 126443] Navigator Document-Specific Constancy

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126443

Buovjaga <ilmari.lauhakangas at libreoffice.org> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Buovjaga <ilmari.lauhakangas at libreoffice.org> ---
A report should deal with only a single topic, but I will comment.

(In reply to Joe Abraham from comment #0)
> 1) Open/Closed Constancy.
> 
> If I open Navigator for a file in Writer, every document I open thereafter -
> Calc, Slide Show, whatever - has Navigator open, and I have to stop and
> close it to open up window space, to see what I'm doing. And vice versa, for
> documents where I want it open, it will default to the previous document's
> settings. It would be great if my open/closed preferences were saved with
> each document. 
> 
> And for a new, empty document, I can't see that there is any reason for
> Navigator to be open.

This is somewhat related: bug 114506

> 
> 2) Drop-Down Constancy.
> 
> Much more problematic, when I close a document where I was using Navigator,
> when I reopen it, all of my outline is collapsed back to the minimal. I have
> to go through the outline opening it back up, in order to be able to see my
> headings, and navigate around the document. That may sound trivial, but I
> typically work on several long documents at once. Often, I simply want to
> add a single insight or an article citation and then close the document. But
> on something as long as a book, I may need to open 20 or more chapter
> headings, and many more subheadings and even sub-subeadings in order to find
> my place, and to figure out where I want the information to go. It is
> particularly frustrating.

Would implementing the request of bug 58192 solve this for you?

Of course we can cram more and more state data into documents, but I think we
should draw the line somewhere.

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