[Bug 160185] Would like a width control for Web view in Writer (like in Google Docs' Pageless view)

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160185

Stéphane Guillou (stragu) <stephane.guillou at libreoffice.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |libreoffice-ux-advise at lists
                   |                            |.freedesktop.org,
                   |                            |stephane.guillou at libreoffic
                   |                            |e.org
           Keywords|                            |needsUXEval
             Blocks|                            |103302
            Summary|Would like a width control  |Would like a width control
                   |for Web view in Writer      |for Web view in Writer
                   |                            |(like in Google Docs'
                   |                            |Pageless view)
          Component|Writer                      |Writer Web
           See Also|                            |https://bugs.documentfounda
                   |                            |tion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16
                   |                            |0111

--- Comment #1 from Stéphane Guillou (stragu) <stephane.guillou at libreoffice.org> ---
As mentioned in bug 160111:

Google Docs allows changing the text width easily from View > Text Width, with
four options available: Narrow, Medium, Wide, Full.

I do agree that it would help with readability. See also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_length

Currently, the workarounds I can think of:
- user might intuitively play with the horizontal ruler's indent controls,
which only affects the current paragraph and has surprising consequences when
changing back to Normal view.
- Change the width of the actual window, which is not ideal as it will hide
parts of the UI.

But this also ties into what is discussed in bug 37817 and bug 53895, as well
as the Normal View topic in bug 37967 and 67698.

Design/UX team, what do you think?


Referenced Bugs:

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103302
[Bug 103302] [META] Writer's web layout/view bugs and enhancements
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