Bug 36400

Summary:	Proposal for wide screen usage
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Bob Harvey <bobharvey>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium
Version:	3.3.2 release
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
See Also:	https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33232
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Bob Harvey 2011-04-19 12:39:03 UTC

The hardware people seem to have messed up screen sizes.  5 years ago my employer gave me a Dell with 1280 vertical pixels.  That became a Fujitsu siemens with 1024, and the next one had 900.  I'm typing this on a Dell with a 900x600 screen.  My most recent company laptop is 1600x960.

we've all gone wide screen but they created the sideways pixels by stealing them from the upwards ones.

All this leaves applications with their windows title, menu, toolbars, tabs, drawing bar & status line very short of vertical space.  And drawing resolution.

I'd like to see an option to move all the controls to the right or left of the writing/drawing area, to make better use of wide screens.  This has all been done before: think gimp, think photoshop tear-off tools.

Just imagine the product differentiation.  A long button bar, with fat named buttons down the left, scrolling up & down with the scrollwheel or with F keys.  Perhaps F15 & F16?  We could sell an Libreoffice keyboard!

PS: honourable mention to http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18829

Comment 1 Björn Michaelsen 2011-12-23 12:07:16 UTC

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Comment 2 Bob Harvey 2011-12-27 12:45:14 UTC

No, I can't move the menus from the top to the side in 3.5

Changing back to 'new'

Comment 3 Bob Harvey 2012-04-06 14:50:20 UTC

Nor yet in 3.5.2.2

Comment 4 Bob Harvey 2012-04-07 13:40:59 UTC

Reverted version after telling off

Comment 5 Gerry 2014-01-17 18:39:59 UTC

Can this enhancement request be closed? This is what the new sidebar is doing. It makes use of the typical widescreen format of modern screens. 

It is not exactly what was requested (being able to move toolbars to the right/left edge), but I think this bug can be closed in the presence of the sidebar?!?

Comment 6 Bob Harvey 2014-01-26 20:39:49 UTC

I'm not sure I am the right person to answer.  Having made the suggestion, which I still believe in, I am unlikely to change my mind.

Surely it is up to the designers to evaluate requests like this and decide if they want to do it?  It would be closed as "this is a stupid idea", or "Yeah, let's do that".


As it happens, I don't think the sidebar is enough.  The styles dialogue, for example, has always docked to the side of a window, but that does not mean the menus are not taking up precious vertical space.

Comment 7 Bob Harvey 2014-02-04 17:06:21 UTC

Let me remind you of https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33232

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