[Bug 106316] New sidebar deck for comments

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106316

--- Comment #11 from V Stuart Foote <vsfoote at libreoffice.org> ---
(In reply to Jim Raykowski from comment #10)
> Created attachment 191464 [details]
> wider comment sidebar
> 
> Would making the comment sidebar wider help?
> 

Sure a (selectively?) wider margin when showing the "PostIt" style comments
helps a lot for readability, and the PostIt offer advantage of visual "bread
crumbs" pointing back to the insertion on page, sheet or canvas.  Current state
of things as in Help [1]. 

Unfortunately activating a docked SB deck already eats in to visible width of
the margin (so SB decks need to be undocked to be useful for collaboration,
like to use Navigator <F5> with Stylist <F11>, ie bug 73151 and bug 85905).

Comment exposure on the SB currently is limited to the Navigator deck where the
first sentence of the comment is listed--visually in document ordering. All
comments, with no ability to filter (by entry sequence, date, or author). 

Likewise the context menu actions available to Comments from the Navigator
differ from those of the PostIt, forcing you to close the SB and 'Edit' or
'GoTo' the insertion point.

So the on document collaborative workflow is awkward moving between Navigator,
canvas and PostIt. And PostIt's alone are unmanageable with more than a couple
authors or a dozen comments. 

Why a SB content panel or floating dialog panel seems appropriate. And if
combined with change tracking, collaborative comments should be available while
the manage changes SB content panel is visible.

=-ref-=
[1]
https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/shared/01/04050000.html?DbPAR=SHARED#bm_id3154100

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