[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 90090] Rearranging the UI of Draw

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90090

--- Comment #8 from V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote at utsa.edu> ---
(In reply to Jay Philips from comment #7)
> ... I would
> consider that having the pane in its enabled but hidden state is likely the
> best default view, as there isnt a need to see the pane when a document only
> has a single page in it.

Agree, auto-toggle visible when document has more than one page/graphic would
be reasonable handling of the Pages pane.

Default page layout for new blank Draw documents should default to landscape.
Import filters should still honor the image/graphic or document page structure
of the incoming object of course. But with this major UI rework, now would be
the time to shift to correct orientation for a default. 

And for Draw to be a more functional illustration tool, it does need additional
vector and bitmap tools, as well as the ability to identify and manipulate the
layers that make up an illustration, or document.  But scope of that work would
require considerable refactoring and development of additional widgets (beyond
existing straight lines, bezier curves, and predefined shapes) within LO.

Display and manipulation of current Layers and OLE might be possible sooner,
and stacking/grouping/and visibility would be good candidate to display in a
new Sidebar content panel.

Also, near term, page/graphic layout for drawing (the current Page setup
context menu dialog) would be a good set of controls to include in a a Content
panel--the now empty/suppressed Properties perhaps--for the Sidebar in Draw.

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