Bug 86887 - Start Comment boxes with one line height and allow to hide author/date
Summary: Start Comment boxes with one line height and allow to hide author/date
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
unspecified
Hardware: Other All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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: 137634 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: Writer-Comments
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Reported: 2014-11-30 23:58 UTC by Orion
Modified: 2023-05-04 03:27 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Attachments
Comment tweak proposal (33.11 KB, image/png)
2020-10-21 09:26 UTC, larvanov
Details
Corrected proposal comment box size (62.27 KB, image/png)
2020-10-21 09:30 UTC, larvanov
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Description Orion 2014-11-30 23:58:56 UTC
The comment boxes (yellow, in the right margins) are far larger than necessary. They start at three lines tall, even if there's nothing in them, and they have author/date information at the bottom, stacked on top of each other (so as to take up even more space). When producing PDFs, rather than sending the ODT back to someone, the size of the boxes limits how many comments one can make. 

Instead, the boxes should start at just one line tall, get bigger *if* you put in more than one line, and the author/date info should be optional (i.e., give me a way to turn it off).
Comment 1 Alex Thurgood 2014-12-01 14:13:42 UTC
Confirming.

RFE
Comment 2 Thomas Lendo 2018-09-22 22:18:00 UTC
Adding needsUXEval to clarify that the request is still valid.
Comment 3 Heiko Tietze 2019-07-27 10:18:28 UTC
There are many requests around comments, in particular when a document has many annotations. One idea is to make it pop-up like in Calc (bug 101714) and of course we could start with less lines and an option to show/hide authorship. I would do the latter per checkbox indented under Comments at Tools > Options > Writer > View. And quick access to this option in the context menu at the comments maybe too.

Adding the request about comment width to see also field.
Comment 4 Dieter 2020-10-21 06:28:47 UTC
*** Bug 137634 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 larvanov 2020-10-21 09:26:23 UTC
Created attachment 166572 [details]
Comment tweak proposal

This should be dealt with ASAP given that it majorly lowers the practical application of Writer. Comments become all but unusable with normal use (i.e. lots of comments per page).

I do not think that the date or the author name should be hidden but I propose to put them both into the same row to conserve space - as per my attachment.
Comment 6 larvanov 2020-10-21 09:30:43 UTC
Created attachment 166573 [details]
Corrected proposal comment box size

Corrected comment box tweak proposal.

(I uploaded the wrong one in the last comment :)
Comment 7 Orion 2020-11-06 15:36:55 UTC
Please do not convert notes to popups! Doing so makes them nearly useless. They are not default visible—you have to click them—and they can’t be printed, either on paper or a PDF. This doesn’t require a complete redesign. Just make them smaller.
Comment 8 Emma Orabelle 2023-05-04 03:27:07 UTC Comment hidden (spam)