[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 89014] SIDEBAR: Adaptive Sidebar behaviour based on window size (e.g. while working with two LO sessions side by side)

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89014

--- Comment #6 from Jay Philips <philipz85 at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to Ajinkya Dahale from comment #5)
> Thanks Jay for expressing my point more clearly and in more details.
> However, I would like to point out that there's nothing special in
> particular about a half-maximize, but the sidebar(s) should be adaptive
> depending on the available vertical and horizontal space. For example, in a
> tablet like surface, there might already be too limited space for the
> sidebar to come up by default even when maximized.

Because of smaller resolutions that the sidebar isnt opened fully by default
and in a maximized view on a tablet (as that is the only way an app can be),
the user has the option to open the sidebar fully or not.

http://gs.statcounter.com/#tablet-resolution-ww-monthly-201411-201501

> I'll extend this problem a bit more by suggesting a case where the space is
> not strictly speaking limited, but an adaptive sidebar can be of use
> nonetheless. When using book view or two-page view in Writer (at ~75% zoom),
> opening the sidebar abruptly forces the document into one-page view.
> Instead, the sidebar could be drawn over the pages, leaving the viewport
> shape unchanged. Further, the sidebar could be drawn on the opposite side of
> the page where the cursor currently is, so that that page is left unhindered.

Two-page view is incorrectly labelled when it actually is automatic view. In
Book view, it does not behave this way.

> This discussion can go on, adding further design problems as they come up.
> So if you believe I should file a separate bug for each of them, or discuss
> it somewhere else, like the Redmine, please let me know.

Well bug reports are intended to address one problem and solve it, so if you
have additional issues you want to address, then they would need to be in
different bug reports. If you want to brainstorm an idea, redmine would be good
for that.

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