Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 24152
Paragraph Styles dialog has to be moved separately
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:38:10 UTC
My StarOffice 7 main window has a floating "Paragraph Styles" dialog next to it. But each time I move the main window I have to then manually move the Paragraph Styles window also. I wish there were a way to 'stick' the Paragraph Styles dialog to the main window so it would move with the main window and I wouldn't have to move it separately. Possibly add a push-pin icon at top of dialog, which when pressed in, would 'stick' the dialog to the main window at the current location?
SBA: Good News. This already works: - Open the Stylist (i.e. with <F11>) - Hold the <Ctrl> key pressed - Click on the dialog's title bar and drag it to the left or right border of the application window. - When you release the moune button, the stylist will "dock" at the edge of the application window and follow it wherever it goes. Notes (1) This works with the naviagator (<F5>) too (2) To undock, hold the <Ctrl> key pressed, click into the grey area beside the icons of the docked stylist or navigator window and drag it towards the middle of the application window. Then it's "floating independently" again. Set to invalid
SBA: Closed.
Thanks for the information -- I would have never figured that out by myself (doesn't the obscureness of the ctrl-key approach seem like an issue also?). Would much prefer the push-pin approach, because that makes the functionality pretty obvious. But I do like the current floating window, and I don't want to dock it. Docking takes up space in my edit window, and I have to then resize it larger so I have enough room to edit my document again. The small floating windows, remind me of post-it notes and I like them. Docking, on the other hand, takes out a large chunk of space from my document window. I'm reopening because I don't consider docking as a desirable solution to this enhancement request (I see it as more of a workaround). I suggest that it would be nice if there were a way for us to use the small floating windows, and yet when we move the main document window, the small floating windows would move also to their same relative position
Upon further thinking, I think the push-pin-button suggestion I made was unnecessary. A simpler and nicer alternative would be that all open float-over dialogs should simply retain their current relative position when the main window is moved (so float-over dialogs would move too). So, essentially, there would be an implicit push-pin type behavior on all float-over dialogs (& no way to turn that behavior off). Couple that with the ability to dock and undock such dialogs (using ctrl-drag, as described above), and you would have an attractive and flexible set of behaviors for openoffice support dialogs
SBA: A while ago, we made the floating dialogs able to get moved out of the main window. If I get it right, they shall stick to their "relative position" if the main window is moved., no matter if they are within or outside of it. Such behavior is very likely to move the dialogs out of the visible area. That would be no problem for those who "ALWAYS know exactly what they did and what they are doing". Unfortunately, this is only a few users out there as far as I can tell :-) For a cvertain amount of users, this would be an evil "trap". My very personal guess based on some years of QA experience tells me what issues would come in as soon as this gets implemented: " Where is the stylist and navigator windoew? I press f5 and F11 and they don't show on the screen! OOo is totally unusable if I cant use these dialogs!" - What shall we tell these people? Summary: In my opinion, this whould be much worse than a docked window eating screen area. I don't advocate it because a trap like this is far from user-friendly. Reassigned to Bettina.
Certainly the post-it note windows should never be allowed to be moved off-screen by movements of the main window, to which they are attached. I agree that would create very serious usability problems. I think it's not too hard to imagine visually how that could be dealt with, so the post-it notes are never allowed to be moved off-screen (but there may be technical issues I'm not aware of).
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