[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 151377] ENHANCEMENT: Collapse or hide toggle for individual effect details in animation sidebar

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151377

--- Comment #8 from Heiko Tietze <heiko.tietze at documentfoundation.org> ---
(In reply to Telesto from comment #6)
> * If you drag the insert animation panel down to the bottom, you can't pick
> it up anymore, if the sidebar being on minimum size (because of a horizontal
> scrollbar at the bottom). But the horizontal scrollbar shouldn't be present
> at the first place, I guess (larger minimum size of the sidebar) so maybe
> unrelated to this

Agreed, should be fixed

> * You don't need the 'Insert Effects' part of the sidebar at all, if you you
> want to rearrange the inserted effects... You don't want to reduce the size
> of the insert animation, you actually want to hide that part of the panel
> temporally. 

But you do normally switch between the two lists when adding animations to
objects. Rearranging is not the primary function.

> * Sliding the panel out of sight, seems to be slightly inconsistent with the
> approach at the properties deck of the sidebar (collapse/expand).

We could replace the slider by a collapsing section similar to the print
dialog. There are some use cases where you want to maximize the lower list of
available animations and there is your rearrangement situation. Which makes it
two collapsible panels and I'm concerned about both being closed. Would be
awkward. Could be solved per code but is a special solution

> I admit that position the up/down buttons & delete button for sorting
> effects being a problem when considering collapsible regions.

Better placed right hand of the list anyway. 

> The Slide sorter bar has no visual buttons for arranging or adding slides. 
> Arranging or adding or deleting slides is done by Drag & Drop (and/or)
> Keyboard Control (and/or) Context Menu

You need some means to pick the animation from a long list, which is not the
fact for the slide pane. Dragging items is possible as well.

> And well - lets face it - the 'Add' button is on weird place anyhow...

The described workflow with Apply/Cancel is true for dialogs when you finalize
the configuration. But I admit instead of Add it could be Insert placed at the
end of this section and with all controls enabled. Workflow would be to set-up
the animation and insert then. The Insert button could become, or rather
accomplished by, another button to Modify the selected animation. Also not
perfect.

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