[Libreoffice-ux-advise] Styles and Formatting Panel toggle enhancement

[Daniel Mania]

Hei everyone!

Being an Opera user, I was wondering if we could improve LibreOffice 
usability greatly by introducing a tiny change to the "Styles and 
Formatting Panel toggle" behavior.
The S&F window can be docked as a panel to the right/left side of the 
screen and LibreOffice adds a toggle bar to that panel. When LibreOffice 
is maximized, this panel can be opened by simply moving the mouse cursor 
to the right/left edge of the screen (just like in Opera). Unfortunately 
the toggle bar is moved along with the opened panel, and is then no 
longer located at the screen edge. If it would remain at it's position, 
the same simple mouse action to open the panel could be used to close it 
again.
I made a mockup of what I am trying to explain here, and attached it to 
this mail.

Another thing, that is certainly more difficult to implement, would be 
the possibility to dock other toolbars than S&F to a side panel.

I absolutely love the side panel in Opera because it gives access to 
bookmarks and other things with a click, without the need to aim the 
mouse cursor at anything. And the side panel may cover a substantial 
part of the screen to make it more usable, since another simple click at 
the edge of the screen will make it disappear again.

Greetings,
Daniel M
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