https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148712
--- Comment #4 from Jeff Fortin Tam <[email protected]> --- Created attachment 206366 --> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=206366&action=edit Screenshot showing available space to put the longer variant of the label I have been bit by this bug again today. > Sheets are usually hidden from ordinary users on purpose. > It is counterproductive to make them explicitly aware of hidden sheets. I don't think you can make that assumption of incompetence towards the user. Besides: * if the user is too scared to look, they won't go looking * if you're worried about them messing things up, then that's what locking sheets is for. There are *many* situations where I forget I hid sheets in my own spreadsheets and I would really appreciate the visual reminder, because I can't immediately visually see the mismatch between a large number of sheets and an even larger amount of sheets (especially when they are scrolled). > While such a string in the status bar takes some space > which many users probably prefer to have for sheet tabs As shown in this attached screenshot, the tabs are shown above the existing status bar's label for the number of sheets, so there is no clash between such a label and the space available for sheets tabs. In fact, there is a _ton_ of available space in the label, particularly on 1920×* displays. If the window width is insufficient (ex: below 1800px?), then yes the string could show the existing shorter variant without the hidden sheets count. > the idea is to place an icon-only info button next to the "add sheet" button > that shows some information about the document in a tooltip-like / balloon. If possible I would really prefer an explicit text label. Icons are inscrutable to me, and also require an explicit extra interaction with them to see the explanatory tooltip text. Besides, that area already has an icon (the red unsaved changes floppy disk icon, which is redundant IMHO considering that the toolbar Save icon button also indicates unsaved state) so two icons close to each other might be strange. > It has the charme that we can give more feedback on the current document in > the future such as size on hard-disk, number of rows/cells I can understand the logic there, but I really don't think those three metrics are important to any users; the size on disk is available from any file manager app and from the "File > Properties" dialog (and in the same dialog's Statistics pane, the rows and columns amount is also available) if they really want to satisfy their curiosity, but in practice those numbers have no real impact on their work (particularly since we don't have 100 megabyte storage disks anymore), unlike the indication that there is a number of hidden sheets you may have forgotten about. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
