https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88182
Bug ID: 88182
Summary: Sidebar: Undocked sidebar is an unusable size without
resizing, doesn't expand automatically
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 4.4.0.1 rc
Hardware: Other
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Reporter: tmac...@gmail.com
Description:
After undocking the sidebar, the sidebar window is unusably small. It is
exactly the same width of of a normal non-expanded docked sidebar, so it only
shows the icons for different categories. Clicking on these categories gives
no response, since the undocked window does not auto-expand to show the area to
the left of the category buttons.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Start with a fresh LO config (remove your .config/libreoffice/4 directory)
2. Create a new Writer document
3. Undock the sidebar (Click sidebar menu button, select undock)
Expected:
We would expect that the undocked sidebar would be large enough to be usable,
showing both category buttons and one of the categories. Failing that, we
would expect that clicking one of the category buttons would expand the window
to include the appropriate dialog.
Actual:
As explained above, the sidebar just shows the strip of category buttons.
Clicking these buttons does not expand the dialog and the sidebar shows no
change.
Notes:
Luckily, LibreOffice does remember the size of the undocked sidebar, so after
resizing it once, a user shouldn't be affected again.
There are other flaws with the undocked sidebar size/positioning:
1. An undocked sidebar needs to auto-expand when a button is clicked.
2. An undocked sidebar currently allows you to make it unusably small. You can
currently resize the window to be 1 pixel by 1 pixel.
3. It shows the snapping arrow when it is only slightly wider than the category
icon column. It does not snap and this is not a useful feature when the
sidebar is undocked.
4. The undocked window appears positioned at the top left of the main
LibreOffice window instead of the right side... most of the time. I've
reported this in bug 88181.
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