Bug 167084 (VT<6) - [META] Apply vertical tabs design with large icons to dialogs with less than 6 tabs
Summary: [META] Apply vertical tabs design with large icons to dialogs with less than ...
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: VT<6
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
unspecified
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: needsUXEval
Depends on: 167207 167085 167103 167105 167197
Blocks: Vertical-Tab-dialogs
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Reported: 2025-06-18 16:13 UTC by Heiko Tietze
Modified: 2025-06-25 13:36 UTC (History)
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List of dialogs with GtkNotebook (45.59 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet)
2025-06-18 16:13 UTC, Heiko Tietze
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Description Heiko Tietze 2025-06-18 16:13:23 UTC
Created attachment 201349 [details]
List of dialogs with GtkNotebook

In total we have 98 ui files containing a GtkNotebook, out of which 5 have no tabs (unclear situation!), 7 are inside another dialog (eg. AutoCorrect). In addition to the 8 completed we have 17 with at least 6 tabs.

I suggest to apply the vertical tabs but with stacked icons, similar to the hyperlink dialog. This needs a case-by-case evaluation, for example the assistant-like Welcome dialog could remain horizontal.

The attached document lists all remaining dialogs. Yellow background indicates "inline tabs", red non-tabbed dialogs, blue existing VT, ie. Hyperlink. The
Comment 1 Heiko Tietze 2025-06-18 16:38:49 UTC
Example in bug 167085
Comment 2 Eyal Rozenberg 2025-06-20 07:50:53 UTC
I would say this is one possible solution to the "problem" of having few vertical tabs. Another solution is flexible-height tab headers, like we had for horizontal tabs. I'm fine with this personally, but I wonder if we should really have just-this-and-only-this universally, everywhere.
Comment 3 Heiko Tietze 2025-06-20 09:27:10 UTC
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #2)
> I wonder if we should really have just-this-and-only-this universally, everywhere.
Do you think of bug 167108?