https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65462
--- Comment #6 from Aurelien Naldi <aurelien.na...@gmail.com> --- (In reply to comment #5) > (In reply to comment #4) > > This is indeed a step in a good direction for me, but it still requires a > > sidebar which takes up lots of space. > > This is probably not the bug report for this issue (about improving > character styles). The title may not be the best: character styles are great in libreoffice, the issue is about improving the way handle them. > > What I suggest here is to duplicate for character styles the toolbar item > > which allows to apply paragraph styles. I would like to be able to remove > > all toolbar buttons for "local character formatting" (bold, underline, text > > color...) and just have a combobox for paragraph styles and one for > > character styles. > > Toolbars do not provide access to styles (and never have). They offer direct > (non-style) formatting for elements in a document. It's just not true: the toolbar always included a combobox for paragraph styles, which I use a lot. The very point of this report for me is to point out that a way to quickly apply character styles without keeping a huge sidebar open is missing. > The design team are > talking about possibly having parts of the sidebar detach in a > launch/retrieve manner (presumably to a toolbar / micro-panel like > arrangement. The result (as I understand it) will be the combining of the > sidebar and toolbar into a single functionality. This may be what you are > (generally) referring to? The discussion can be found here: > > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/The-Sidebar-Problem-td4094331.html It looks like an interesting direction, and maybe one that could solve this issue if implemented properly, but I'm affraid it is a better solution to EDIT styles that to simply apply them (many publications, technical reports and so on have strict rules about how to format this or that kind of text, some even provide templates with pre-defined styles for this kind of things. Unfortunately, most text processors make it much harder to apply styles than to use manual formatting (unless you typeset in LaTeX or HTML+CSS!). LibreOffice can (and IMHO should) change this. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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