Bug 169788 - Ability to skew page position to the left or to the right
Summary: Ability to skew page position to the left or to the right
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 142869
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
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Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Reported: 2025-12-02 09:56 UTC by Danat
Modified: 2025-12-08 12:09 UTC (History)
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Description Danat 2025-12-02 09:56:47 UTC
Description:
Comments expansion and sidebar expansion naturally cause the page to shake, and this is both uncomfortable and unproductive. The eyes want to stay fixed, and it takes time to reorient the vision

I thought if the page could be skewed to the left (so the left gray gap is narrower and the right gray gap is wider) - that would let the page stay motionless

Additionally, people might run foreign apps such as calculators or browsers over LibreOffice, and the skewed page would make it more comfortable

And this is an optional setting, not forced upon anyone

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Comment 1 tkakar 2025-12-08 01:17:19 UTC
Toggling the sidebar does cause the document canvas to re-size, but it's the expected behavior. There's currently no option to pin a document or align the canvas to a side to prevent the shift. Tested in:

Version: 25.8.3.2 (X86_64)
Build ID: 8ca8d55c161d602844f5428fa4b58097424e324e
CPU threads: 16; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 26200); UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded
Comment 2 Danat 2025-12-08 01:21:45 UTC
(In reply to tkakar from comment #1)
> Toggling the sidebar does cause the document canvas to re-size, but it's the
> expected behavior. There's currently no option to pin a document or align
> the canvas to a side to prevent the shift. Tested in:
> 
> Version: 25.8.3.2 (X86_64)
> Build ID: 8ca8d55c161d602844f5428fa4b58097424e324e
> CPU threads: 16; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 26200); UI render:
> Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
> Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
> Calc: CL threaded

The pain it takes to code that is small compared to the relief people will get

I believe the effort to code it would be justified
Comment 3 Buovjaga 2025-12-08 07:45:35 UTC
It seems bug 142869 requests the same for all the applications. Do you agree to close this as a duplicate of it?
Comment 4 Danat 2025-12-08 10:12:57 UTC
(In reply to Buovjaga from comment #3)
> It seems bug 142869 requests the same for all the applications. Do you agree
> to close this as a duplicate of it?

If they are talking about moving the page to the left or right while it fits in the screen and there are gaps beyond the borders, then yes. It's the same I want

Though I might have a different vision of how it should be implemented in terms of UI

I'd like there to be arrowed buttons that move the page
Comment 5 Buovjaga 2025-12-08 12:09:25 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 142869 ***