Bug 55168 - Writer functionality request: add options for improving reading of text in Fullscreen Mode
Summary: Writer functionality request: add options for improving reading of text in Fu...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Reported: 2012-09-20 22:02 UTC by BrendaEM
Modified: 2014-08-12 18:24 UTC (History)
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Description BrendaEM 2012-09-20 22:02:17 UTC
Hi,

Recently, I tried Focuswriter. I found it might benefit Writer if either a minimalist mode was added, adding these option to the full-screen editing mode:

1.) Option to hide the scroll bars until mouse over/hover.

2.) Option to omit "Full Screen" button, see: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54459

3.) Add drag mode/hand, see: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54469

4.) Option to make the background the same as the workspace/border.

5.) Allow the user to use a full-page tiled paper texture for the purpose of reducing eyestrain by giving the user a background to also look at. The current texture and color options do not work for this purpose. I think that this texture should linked and not embedded into the document, because embedded would add to a document's size, and this feature is meant as an UI centric enhancement only. In using ebook readers such as FBReader and Coolreader, I found that adding a texture can reduce eyestrain LCD monitors.

I feel that these options will add value beyond that available in other word processors.
Comment 1 sasha.libreoffice 2012-12-05 10:27:31 UTC
Thanks for new idea
Sorry for can not understand items 4 and 5
Please, add screenshots that demonstrates how it is currently and how it should be
Comment 2 BrendaEM 2012-12-06 00:58:46 UTC
By placing a textured background representing paper, eyestrain may be reduced as the eye has additional geometry to focus on rather than just the edges of the fonts. For this reason, most ebook readers offer such an option.

Optimally, the user could specify a repeating texture for the background of Writer, which is not embedded or saved in the document. The purpose of the background is only to ease reading eyestain.

(Having written 250,000 words in writer, I wish this option existed before.)

Additionally and currently, the horizontal scrollbars appear even when the entire width of the text can be seen, which is suboptimal for zooming.

~

We have a choice, Librieoffice can play catch-up with commercial applications in a minefield of patents, or it can move ahead.
Comment 3 sasha.libreoffice 2012-12-06 04:59:45 UTC
Thanks for additional explanations
Comment 4 Emir Sarı (away) 2012-12-09 08:41:57 UTC
This is a valid enhancement request, so setting status to "NEW".


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