All LibreOffice applications have the ability to insert comments. However, only Impress and Draw have a toolbar for this feature. Calc and Writer don't have a toolbar for it. In Impress or Draw you can enable the toolbar via "View"->"Toolbars"->"Comments". The toolbar is very handy and also looks nice. Why is the same toolbar not available in Calc and Writer? These applications have the same comment core functionality. Hence, I believe it should be very easy to enable the toolbar also in Calc and Writer.
In the EasyHacks wiki page an interesting alternative approach to a comments tool bar is described: Background: We have a great new 'notes' feature, but it is hard to turn this on and off. We have a beautiful design mockup (http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Notes2_Design_NotesSidePane#Proposal_.22Notes_Ruler_Control.22) of how this could be done as an extension to the existing ruler code. The existing ruler code is (shared) in svx/source/dialog/svxruler.cxx and svx/inc/svx/ruler.hxx - and this builds on top of the svtools ruler: svtools/inc/ruler.hxx and svtools/source/control/ruler.cxx - see eg. Ruler::Paint there (and vcl's outdev.hxx for drawing methods). Source: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Easy_Hacks_Complete_List
UX Comment: A note to this request - Impress/Draw notes have been created by a different author without proper UX support. When we've designed the notes for Writer, we tried to explicitly _avoid_ another toolbar. So the "issue" is indeed a feature. So, I recommend to remove the toolbar from Impress/Draw and add sufficient Notes handling in the Navigator of Impress/Draw/Calc.
@Christoph: I agree with your proposed solution. A "comments ruler control" will be a much better solution than another toolbar. What to do with this bug? Renaming it or marking it as "fixed-invalid" and opening a clean new bug entry for your idea?
Proposal in bug 38246 is superior to this one. Therefore, closing as duplicate. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 38246 ***
Migrating Whiteboard tags to Keywords: (EasyHack) [NinjaEdit]
You're right—Impress and Draw have a dedicated "Comments" toolbar, while Writer and Calc do not. This is likely due to UI design decisions, not technical limitations. Since comments work similarly across all LibreOffice apps, adding the toolbar to Writer and Calc should be feasible. You could suggest this feature on the LibreOffice Bugzilla or via their UX mailing list. Source: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Easy_Hacks_Complete_List https://italianbrainrot-clicker.org