https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106316
--- Comment #8 from V Stuart Foote <vsfo...@libreoffice.org> --- (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #6) Again from bug 158647 where J22Gim wrote <snip> ... The functionality being suggested is not to navigate through the comments but to comfortably work with them (mostly reply to them) in a space that is not constrained by the margins. The pop-up functionality may be useful only for the visibility of the comment, but it does not bring any benefit to the management of comments as a Review Pane (where you can easily go back and forth between the comment, your reply, other comments, other replies, etc). Maybe it is worth mentioning why this is very important (and other office suites have noted) and might not be immediately evident. In 'normal' academic writing (eg. scientific articles), one of the keystones is the review process. This process consists of a number of people ('reviewers') adding comments to your text, asking for clarifications, suggesting different things, etc. Addressing those comments is a whole task itself. It is not just "navigate, then accept/reject" as in 'Track changes'. It requires that you thoughtfully consider all the comments, and the reply in a organized fashion where the final (new) manuscript has to make sense and be an improved version. It is not uncommon that this process of 'reviewing' is equivalent (in terms of amount of work) to generating a new manuscript (hopefully better than the previous one, and taking into account all comments). Some comments include quite a few previous statements to situate the reader on where the comment is going to. Sometimes comments from different reviewers are contradictory (and many times there are not written successively). So the person that has to manage all the comments really needs a dedicated space as the Reviewing Pane (or comments panel, whatever name is finally decided). It is very different from GIT-like workflow where you change some lines and then can see clearly what the changes are and decide if accept or not. It is like writing the whole software every time with new user requirements!. ... </snip> -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.