Created attachment 192547 [details] Minimum-width Navigator sidebar I believe the minimum width of the Navigator sidebar is too high, i.e. the Navigator is always wide and can't be narrowed down to a reasonable width. * At its minimum width, it is perhaps 10% wider than the Styles sidebar minimum; * Its tree-ish content rectangle, in an empty document, uses up less than 35% of its width * Three of its four widget rows (other than the main content rectangle) require no more than 70% of the current Navigator sidebar width It's just the first row of widgets that's the culprit. And that can definitely be made narrower! For example, the spinbox increment and decrement widges can (one hopes!) be stacked vertically rather than horizontally, or even hidden altogether, to save space; the collapsed category drop-down list could lose, oh, 20% of its width in a pinch, even if the longest item would suffer when displayed. And that's without considering hiding any widgets. So, please make it happen. Note: This bug may be VCL-specific. Version: 24.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: ffccbf4762a9ae810bcdd21c41fccdd436e7bfc9 CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.6; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: he-IL (en_IL); UI: en-US
Created attachment 192548 [details] Minimum-width styles sidebar for comparison
The Navigator deck is mostly constrained by the "Navigate By" + up/down and GoTo spin edit on top. IIRC it was discussed in bug 112437 "Go to page toolbar control" and eventually decided to keep the goto spinedit there (I also remember some pondering to have it in an extra line, which wouldn't be a good solution). I agree to remove it to save space, and to use either the [Page] up/down option or the dedicated dialog (click on the statusbar panel). OTOH, it's not an issue on my Qt-based system. The Gtk toolkit is just extensively large. See also bug 131947 "Sidebar minimum width of Decks are too wide when docked"
Dupe as noted. There is also the very helpful 'minimumwidth' stanza in expert configuration. Set it FALSE to consistently allow all panels of the SB to shrink in width to collapse arrow appears. Discussion in see also bug 140360 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 141728 ***