It would be nice to have a capability to keep several opened documents in one application window, similarly to how a modern browser can handle many tabs in several browser windows. For example, if I have 10 documents open in LO, plus 8 other applications then I may want to organise them somehow. Now I have two options in Windows: - group all similar applications into one icon on the taskbar - keep everything separately. The first one would merge all the opened LO files into one icon so I would have 9 icons all together (8 for the non-LO applications plus one for all the LO files). The second option would produce 18 icons on the task bar. I would like to organise my 10 opened LO documents in, say, three windows: - Project #1: doc1.odt, doc2.odt, doc3.odt, spr1.ods, spr2.ods - Project #2: doc4.odt, drw1.odg, drw2.odg - Project #3: spr3.ods, spr4.ods. This would show 8+3=11 icons on the taskbar, 8 for the non-LO applications and 3 for the LO windows. One benefit is the better organised documents. Another, maybe even more important benefit would be that when I close the window of Project #1 then I could re-open all the files of that particular project with one click.
"Taskbar" is a MS Windows only structure--it is not cross platform so a non-starter. Currently cross platform we support the main menu -> Windows list of links to all active documents of the current soffice.bin session. We've talked about doing a tabbed UI and that is open as bug 37134 and bug 33173 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 37134 ***