I don't want to see comments as bubbles. I don't want to see silly dashed arrows. I want to read comment text across the full viewport width, not some tiny vertical strip which fits almost no text (nor a sidebar either). So, what is it that I expect to see? A secondary pane to the main window, on the bottom, displaying the comments for reading and editing.
And I don't want to see how you annoy, at least me, all the time, and I put up with it. Please, if you can, think twice before you write what you WANT.
Created attachment 194569 [details] A document with numerous comments to its side This is not an appealing way to read comments, nor to write them...
Created attachment 194570 [details] Document for the screenshot in attachment 194569 [details] Writer document with which I generated the screenshot in attachment 194569 [details]. Note: I'm using build Version: 24.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 92815f3a464b447898ecf52492247335228e4a72 CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.6; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-IL (en_IL); UI: en-US
The only way I can imagine this is by having the new comment sidebar being undockable to be placed wherever the user wants, like the navigator. I can't imagine contributors developing and maintaining a _third_ way to view comments. Some questions: - the comment panel is now resizable, so can accommodate more text - isn't that sufficient?; - how do you envisage a bottom panel linking comments to their anchor in the document? Or by "I don't want to see silly dashed arrows", you mean you don't want to see _any_ linking? - do you have an example / screenshot of an application that does it this way?
This is work in progress during one of the current GSoC projects. Please find the duplicate and annotate this ticket yourself.
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #5) > This is work in progress during one of the current GSoC projects. Please > find the duplicate and annotate this ticket yourself. I searched all of the Writer-Comments bugs and could not find a proper dupe. But - bug 38295 is about the same problem; with this bug arguing for a particular solution. Would you like the discussion to be moved over there? Also, GSoC project link please? (In reply to Stéphane Guillou (stragu) from comment #4) > The only way I can imagine this is by having the new comment sidebar being > undockable to be placed wherever the user wants, like the navigator. I think I'm opposed to this. You see, the sidebar never holds part of the document; and comments are part of the document. So I don't think it's legitimate to edit comments in the sidebar. (Although I can't deny that a vertical area for commet editing will have appeal for many.) > I can't > imagine contributors developing and maintaining a _third_ way to view > comments. 1. Then just this way please :-) Why? Because bubbles are alredy placed vertically. Horizontal is what's really missing. 2. Actually, development-work-wise, the extra work for another mode should be far less than the work for the second mode. > Some questions: > - the comment panel is now resizable, so can accommodate more text - isn't > that sufficient?; No, just try resizing the comment area in the document I've attached. There's still basically just as much overhead due to the bubbles; and each comment gets scrolled separately; and you get large mostly-empty bubbles so, space is wasted; plus if you enlarge significantly you may not be able to see the entire width of the actual document etc. So no. > - how do you envisage a bottom panel linking comments to their anchor in the > document? Or by "I don't want to see silly dashed arrows", you mean you > don't want to see _any_ linking? Highlighting: The commented area highlight color changes when you're editing its comment and perhaps vice-versa. Configuration for turning this off perhaps for those who find it distracting. And no dashed lines from balloons to the comment. > - do you have an example / screenshot of an application that does it this > way? MS Word's reviewing pane (at least, what it used to be at some point). Will add a screenshot.
Created attachment 194936 [details] An older MS Word's review pane Notes about this screenshot: 1. The same pane shows many kinds of content - mostly tracked changes - with comments being just one. There's also changes to Headers & Footers, to textboxes, to footnotes, to endnotes etc. I'm not super-happy about the aesthetics of this pane (gray rectangles, showing empty items; but it's a pane. That's where I got the idea from.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 106316 ***