With the growing number of sidebar tabs it becomes harder to navigate, in particular when the icons are not perfectly clear. We provide a customization via the hamburger menu that allows to disable some tabs. Instead of keeping the icons visible (in a disabled state) I suggest to completely hide them.
+1 from my side.
I disagree, I like these icons and always use it for opening needed pane at once
(In reply to Roman Kuznetsov from comment #2) > I ... always use it for opening needed pane at once You cannot open a disabled tab (what you call pane, see https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Guidelines/Sidebar for the terminology). The point is that you deliberately disable a tab, eg. Accessibility, to achieve something. And that's likely not to just disable but hide.
No further comment, let's do it.
Heiko Tietze committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/836abb5b367f438f18ab58953a6f3d5b4bc903e4 Resolves tdf#162450 - Hide sidebar tab button It will be available in 25.2.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
My only request would be a convenient way in UI to "restore" those Decks that have been disabled. Such that the current 'Restore Defaults' at least brings any disabled decks back to simply hidden state. Also, insist that no decks are "hidden" by default, and user must do so intentionally if they choose, with the means to restore what is disabled (short of full clear of their profile).
(In reply to Commit Notification from comment #5) > Heiko Tietze committed a patch related to this issue. > It has been pushed to "master": > > https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/ > 836abb5b367f438f18ab58953a6f3d5b4bc903e4 > > Resolves tdf#162450 - Hide sidebar tab button > > It will be available in 25.2.0. > > The patch should be included in the daily builds available at > https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More > information about daily builds can be found at: > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds > > Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback. @Heiko, all this affects is visibility of the entire Tab bar. Thought your intent was to "selectively" remove a deck from the bar? Hiding the tab bar is not the same as hiding/disabling a specific deck...
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #7) > @Heiko, all this affects is visibility of the entire Tab bar. No, it's about the individual tab buttons that user may customize per checkbox. And instead of disabling the patch will hide it now.