https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37134
--- Comment #99 from Roland Hughes <rol...@logikalsolutions.com> --- (In reply to Sahil Gautam from comment #98) > I would like to work on this. I am working on other patches, so may take a > month or so to make some time. But yes I have it in my hit-list. > > How I imagine solving it: > > Suppose that the UI side is taken care of, then isn't opening a document in > a new tab same as clicking on some document from the startcenter (or opening > a new document), and just showing a box(tab) with it's name type and maybe > save state. And Closing a tab would be same as clicking on the cross button > on the top right corner. > > And talking about the UI, Notebookbar's "tags" like file, home etc,is the > closest analog to tabs I see in LIbreoffice's UI, and studying and modifying > that so as to dynamically create those "tags", but for files, with a cross > button on the right side, shouldn't be that complicated (maybe). "Would be > just the perfect bug for me to work on, incremental and challenging" :). Weeeelllll Before you dive into coding, you need to look at the comments someone hid claiming they have no value when they have near limitless value to one who is going to look into this. First, you have to know what "this" is. StarOffice which was a predecessor of OpenOffice whose code became Libre Office had one tab per document way back with version 5.2. Lotus Symphony for 32-bit Ubuntu 8.x also had tab interface and the Navigator. That code was returned by IBM to OpenOffice and by extension Libre Office. The Navigator made it into LO, the tabbed interface did not. 32-bit Symphony can be found here: https://www.logikalsolutions.com/wordpress/sdm_downloads/lotus-symphony-32-bit-for-ubuntu-8-04/ You can see how to set up Ubuntu 8 32-bit and get the download link for Symphony here: https://www.logikalsolutions.com/wordpress/information-technology/lotus-symphony/ That will give you a good idea how the one-tab-per-document functionality previously worked with a codebase ancestor. If you want to try to identify where/when the code was checked into Apache OpenOffice from IBM you can dig through this message thread. This might have been lost as part of the Java purge though. There is another bug which gets mentioned much but I don't know the number. That is the one that Tom, I, and many others wish existed. That "this" is Lotus WordPro with tabbed sections and divisions ___within___ a document and a multi-tabbed document interface. Very difficult to describe to one who hasn't used it. Kind of like trying to describe what salt tastes like to someone that has never had any. You can read about it and see screen shots here: https://www.logikalsolutions.com/wordpress/information-technology/thank-you-for-your-future-abandonware/ Do a Web search for "Lotus SmartSuite." There are "used software" places selling it. eBay, Amazon, even Offer-Up. https://offerup.com/item/detail/ee98975a-b2c4-3f55-8b5c-83c94c909e8a I see that one "reduced" it to $10 from $20. You really need to use the software for a bit to understand __how__ it functioned. Under the hood is different from the UI. It's the UI and single file capability everyone is talking about. After you've researched both of those you can decide which "this" you wish to work on. You will at least have a much better idea about how to implement without blocking any future enhancement. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
