Bug 130650

Summary: Button to hide the right sidebar not easy to find
Product: LibreOffice Online Reporter: Johannes Rohr <jorohr>
Component: LibreOfficeAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: normal CC: aron.budea, himajin100000, kendy, pedro.silva, xiscofauli
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
See Also: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131811
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Attachments: LO sidebar with no handle to hide/unhide it

Description Johannes Rohr 2020-02-14 07:47:16 UTC
Created attachment 157851 [details]
LO sidebar with no handle to hide/unhide it

I cannot, for the life of me, find a way to hide the right sidebar, there is no handle to hide/unhide it and I cannot find any such menu open. 

This is doubly annoying because Nextcloud also adds its sidebar, leaving very little screen real estate for the editor.
Comment 1 Xavier Van Wijmeersch 2020-02-29 18:43:52 UTC
Did you try F11?
Comment 2 Johannes Rohr 2020-03-01 05:53:04 UTC
(In reply to Xavier Van Wijmeersch from comment #1)
> Did you try F11?

I didn't know that F11 is an option. I titled this "no *apparent* way to hide sidebar, because I thought there must be some way but it is not apparent to the user. I would suggest that it should have some handle with whom it can be hidden/unhidden, because most of us don't know the hotkeys.
Comment 3 Johannes Rohr 2020-03-06 07:55:09 UTC
(In reply to Xavier Van Wijmeersch from comment #1)
> Did you try F11?

F11 maximizes the browser, it doesn't hide the sidebar. 

In the meantime, I found that the sidebar can be hidden from the "view" menu, but I don't see any reason why it can't get a handle that allows for quick hiding/unhiding, as in the desktop version.
Comment 4 Johannes Rohr 2020-04-07 02:18:09 UTC
current versions have a button on the icon bar to hide the sidebar. One just has to find it. Would be better to have it attached to the sidebar itself. That's where you look for it.
Comment 5 Aron Budea 2020-04-20 03:41:15 UTC
Yes, the rightmost button(s) on the toolbar show/hide the sidebar.
Let's retitle this bug report that the button isn't straightforward to find for unfamiliar users.