[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 91824] remove sidebar configuration icon and menu items to view > sidebar menu entry

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91824

--- Comment #9 from V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote at utsa.edu> ---
You all are missing the point. The Sidebar is an adjunct GUI to Toolbars. With
introduction of a SDK for flexible manipulation of Sidebar's layout and
function (customizations and extensions)--the Sidebar will become a more
relevant GUI option.

As Jay observes, by HIG it does need to be fully exposed in Menu. But neutering
customization of the GUI now just because it lacks function currently is not
rational.

When Andre Fischer took on tasks of integrating the Symphony "Property panel"
expanding the OOo "Task pane" it was clear that rather than a static GUI, the
new 
"Sidebar" was intended to be a dynamic framework.

https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/the_sidebar_new_and_improved

LibreOffice has moved it forward considerably with .UI GTK stacking based
organization of the GUI--but the flexible nature of the Sidebar to the GUI
remains.

Laurent Godard's work on bug 91806 -- Create a Sidebar UNO API, gets us further
along in support for dynamic reconfiguration and addition by extension to the
Sidebar.

Before proposing these endless "tweaks" to the UI, consider the full potential
of a fully implemented Sidebar--in that case Customization will very much be
needed. Please, leave it be for now and allow the development to catch up.

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