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

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

--- Comment #10 from V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote at utsa.edu> ---
(In reply to Jay Philips from comment #9)

> > 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. 
> 
> Yes if the default page orientation isnt the most suitable one then it
> should be changed but i dont see other related apps go for landscape over
> portrait.
> 

If we think of using Draw to prepare illustrations/graphics for use in other
ODF documents, the Portrait orientation of the page/graphic is not optimal. 

It is made worse as the default size opens at Letter/A4 size. 

Practical truth is that most illustrations/graphics being prepared in Draw
would benefit from a smaller default page/graphic size--either square as an
Icon, or in Landscape mode.  Proportioned to better place onto a document page
as an OLE. Likewise for a illustration/graphic being prepared to place into an
Impress presentation--Landscape graphics are more often needed than Portrait.

Providing a cleaner UI (Sidebar content panel, and maybe tweak the context
menu) to resize and orient the page/graphic size will help with that.

Defaulting to Landscape would provide better UX by requiring less fuss at the
start of the drawing session.

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