Bug 39013 - UI Improvement - Larger Worksheet Tabs
Summary: UI Improvement - Larger Worksheet Tabs
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 36772
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
unspecified
Hardware: All Linux (All)
: low enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords:
: 39011 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2011-07-06 13:05 UTC by PJ
Modified: 2013-05-28 13:56 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Future State UI Worksheet Tab Design (43.14 KB, image/png)
2011-07-06 13:05 UTC, PJ
Details
Calc 3.5.4.2 showing small tabs on bottom (4.59 KB, image/png)
2012-08-14 14:58 UTC, PJ
Details

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Description PJ 2011-07-06 13:05:09 UTC
Created attachment 48835 [details]
Future State UI Worksheet Tab Design

PROBLEM:

The worksheet tabs located at the bottom of the User Interface for Calc are
poorly rendered and too small to be usable.  They interfere with the horizontal
scroll bar so that there is either not enough horizontal real estate for the
tabs, or not enough horizontal real estate for the scroll bar.



PROPOSED SOLUTION:

Move the worksheet tabs to the top of the UI, following the generally accepted
design practice of placing tabs at the top of a user interface.  To improve
usability, make the tabs larger so they are easier to work with.  Use a more
pleasing tab design, rather than the crude tiny trapezoidal design used
currently.  (Please see a mock-up of this proposal,
Libre_Office_Tabs_On_Top.png, attached).

With this new approach, the tabs will have more horizontal space; the
horizontal scroll bar will remain at the bottom, but it will utilize the entire
width of the document, as per established user interface design practices.
Comment 1 PJ 2011-07-06 13:06:48 UTC
*** Bug 39011 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Björn Michaelsen 2011-12-23 12:27:59 UTC
[This is an automated message.]
This bug was filed before the changes to Bugzilla on 2011-10-16. Thus it
started right out as NEW without ever being explicitly confirmed. The bug is
changed to state NEEDINFO for this reason. To move this bug from NEEDINFO back
to NEW please check if the bug still persists with the 3.5.0 beta1 or beta2 prereleases.
Details on how to test the 3.5.0 beta1 can be found at:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugHunting_Session_3.5.0.-1

more detail on this bulk operation: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/RFC-Operation-Spamzilla-tp3607474p3607474.html
Comment 3 Christian Schmolzi 2012-01-06 02:33:56 UTC
I had the same problem using Linux/xfce desktop which had the overlay-scrollbar package installed. This package is responsible for drawing just a thin line instead of a scrollbar in all kinds of windows and show a scroll handle only when you move the mouse over it.

After uninstalling this package (together with liboverlay-scrollbar-x.y.z the scrollbar in LibreOffice calc is drawn again in a normal size and the sheet tabs are readable again.
Comment 4 Florian Reisinger 2012-08-14 14:03:31 UTC
Dear bug submitter!

Due to the fact, that there are a lot of NEEDINFO bugs with no answer within the last six months, we close all of these bugs.

To keep this message short, more infos are available @ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/NeedinfoClosure#Statement

Thanks for understanding and hopefully updating your bug, so that everything is prepared for developers to fix your problem.

Yours!

Florian
Comment 5 Florian Reisinger 2012-08-14 14:04:26 UTC
Dear bug submitter!

Due to the fact, that there are a lot of NEEDINFO bugs with no answer within the last six months, we close all of these bugs.

To keep this message short, more infos are available @ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/NeedinfoClosure#Statement

Thanks for understanding and hopefully updating your bug, so that everything is prepared for developers to fix your problem.

Yours!

Florian
Comment 6 Florian Reisinger 2012-08-14 14:08:58 UTC
Dear bug submitter!

Due to the fact, that there are a lot of NEEDINFO bugs with no answer within the last six months, we close all of these bugs.

To keep this message short, more infos are available @ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/NeedinfoClosure#Statement

Thanks for understanding and hopefully updating your bug, so that everything is prepared for developers to fix your problem.

Yours!

Florian
Comment 7 Florian Reisinger 2012-08-14 14:10:58 UTC
Dear bug submitter!

Due to the fact, that there are a lot of NEEDINFO bugs with no answer within the last six months, we close all of these bugs.

To keep this message short, more infos are available @ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/NeedinfoClosure#Statement

Thanks for understanding and hopefully updating your bug, so that everything is prepared for developers to fix your problem.

Yours!

Florian
Comment 8 PJ 2012-08-14 14:58:32 UTC
Created attachment 65553 [details]
Calc 3.5.4.2 showing small tabs on bottom
Comment 9 PJ 2012-08-14 15:03:07 UTC
The issue with tabs that are too small to work with still exists in Calc 3.5.4.2 as show in the the attached image "Calc 3.5.4.2 showing small tabs on bottom".
Comment 10 Florian Reisinger 2012-08-15 17:18:34 UTC
Set status to NEW
Comment 11 Owen Genat (retired) 2013-05-28 13:56:32 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 36772 ***