https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169126
--- Comment #9 from Danat <[email protected]> --- (In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #8) > Have watched the video. > > The questions and screen capture are: > > "Manual page size adjustment by a numeric value is inconvenient > What about an ability to manually drag it like sidebar? > Like this? > Thank you" > > Screen capture first shows the Page Style... dialog launched from context > menu and using the Page tab's Paper Format making change(s) to the 'Height:' > field. > > After showing the above text, it shows the Sidebar deck being dragged wider > and narrower. And asks question "ability to manually drag it like sidebar". > > So, to answer: > > Unlike the fielded spinbox as used for a numerical page resize, Mouse or > cursor based drag resize--while feasible--would likely be non-performant. > > The resizable Sidebar deck is a UI element, it has limited impact (i.e. just > viewport adjustments) on the document canvas, so negligible. > > On the other hand, resize of a document's page, currently via spin box > fields on the dialog, triggers predictable refresh of the document's layout > *only when Applied* (Apply or OK from the dialog). > > UI Drag actions would require dynamic recalculation, perhaps could use a > bounding rectangle to reduce redraw hash. > > Of questionable use for the Writer module (even working with tables), while > for the Draw module we already have bug 98950. > > IMHO => WF This whole thing isn't very serious, but I thought that such a thing - if properly implemented - would make LibreOffice standout. Is there any office app that has it? Though I can imagine that users would be accidentally dragging the pages often Maybe there could be an algorithm like right-click->resize page->it lets you resize it->manually drag the page->it doesn't let you drag anymore until you repeat that algorithm But maybe that's not necessary and just let them drag without any prior steps Or maybe you could add a setting like "allow manual resizing of pages by dragging", and that sounds like the most ideal path to me -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
