[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 101776] place widget navigation aids between status bar and 'document ' view/ sheets/ presentation

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101776

Zenaan Harkness <zen at freedbms.net> changed:

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--- Comment #7 from Zenaan Harkness <zen at freedbms.net> ---
> Calc is very special in that not only one document is
> open at time but many spreadsheets.

This is a very good point.

Why are we forgetting users (like me) who are trying to cope with a 1200 page
book? If I had some calc-like tabs at the bottom, each tab could be quick way
to jump to a particular page - it's like "new window" but embedded behind the
tabs - very clean and elegant way to provide one form of "dynamic bookmars"
(dynamic, since each tab is another view - and each view can be "watching" any
part of the document. For me this would be a wonderful feature :D


> You will find a similar solution to what you expect
> in Draw where the layers are realized per tabs.

I have not used Draw. Ultimately, I say we should not cram "one size fits all
UI" into "the only available UI" - but this is of course limitation of
developer time at the moment - for example see bug #33232 (workspaces).

When workspaces are available, why we would say NO/WONTFIX to navigation aid
widgets like this bug proposes?

Surely this would fit perfectly into the advanced UI customizability implied by
workspaces in bug #33232 ?


> Actually it is an abuse,

That is a matter of opinion. Of course, genuine improvements notwithstanding,
and new approach may well be better in that example, than "tabs == layers" -
but why limit tabs to have to "== layers" ? see bug #33232


> and the proposal
> in the blog post I added in comment 1 deals with this fact.

That sounds like genuine improvement.

I consider also calc-like navigation aids to be an "advanced user" or "power
user" UI feature, and now that we have found bug #33232 I hope my argument is a
little more compelling now.


Referenced Bugs:

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33173
[Bug 33173] Tabbed UI (Writer): Division/section-per-tab (similar to Lotus
WordPro)
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33232
[Bug 33232] Implement Workspaces (UI arrangements) to better accommodate
different hardware and user preferences
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