It would be helpful to know how many comments there are in a document. It would also be nice to know how many words and/or kb of text within the comments taken as a whole. Thanks for considering... luke
Sounds good -> NEW.
There is an easy way to see the number of comments 1) open the navigator 2) move your cursor to "comments" => the number of comments is displayed
(In reply to Dieter Praas from comment #2) > There is an easy way to see the number of comments > 1) open the navigator > 2) move your cursor to "comments" => the number of comments is displayed Good point. Yet, the stats tab of properties does contain information on things shown in the Navigator. The question is do we map these views one to one (including Hyperlinks, Sections, Bookmarks etc.)? Asking design team for an opinion.
Thanks. That suffices. I will note, though, that the discoverability of the feature seems very low to me. In contrast, I expected the "File Properties" panel to contain that information, since it seems an important property of the document. But, now that I know, I probably won't forget. Thank you.
Created attachment 132853 [details] Comment number feedback UI problem screenshot What it looked like when the number of comments failed to be displayed, within a minute.
I'll just note a problem, related. trying out the feature on a large file (novel) with many comments, opened up as a .docx file: there's no indication as to when you can trust the number displayed. After waiting for a minute or so for LO to become responsive, opening the file (all menus drawn and operational, number of pages displayed at the bottom of the window), I opened the navigator and hovered the cursor over the comments field. It said 193. (I knew that was wrong.) Puzzled, I checked again, and saw that the number had increased. There was no indication that the number was stil l being calculated. Checking back some minutes later, I see the number is now saying 970. (And now, a minute later, 1016.) There's no indication as to how long I need to wait to get the final number. I suppose I'll check back every minute or so until the number remains unchanged. The usability of this feature seems a little poor, for the case of someone working with an editor on a novel. I'll add that I also had to move the mouse over the "Comments" word and wait for approx 25 seconds before the current total appeared. (1068.) If one didn't know that the number would appear, one would easily assume that there was no balloon text. In fact, I had trouble making it appear this last attempt. I clicked on the word Comments and left the cursor hovering over it, but nothing had changed after waiting 75 seconds. I tried again, and a small grey-dashed rectangular outline appeared, but was not then rendered with the number. I have attached a screenshot. I then tried click on the first comment and hovering the cursor back over the word comment, and it finally (and quite quickly) appeared. (Total was unchanged, at 1068.) I just thought these problems might not have been mentioned.
(In reply to Buovjaga from comment #3) > Asking design team for an opinion. This info could be shown at the status bar along with the word count (ideally optional enabled per checkbox in the wc dialog). Or just added to the word count dialog. -> EASYHACK (or maybe not since the tooltip in the Navigator might be based on the UI control). About the missing feedback on load it's better to file another ticket.
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #7) > (In reply to Buovjaga from comment #3) > > About the missing feedback on load it's better to file another ticket. I feel that the missing feedback after load won't matter, if the number of comments is reported in the file properties panel. So unless this ends up being resolved as Won't Fix, I'll hold back from doing that.
Please add keyword 'needsUXEval' and CC 'libreoffice-ux-advise@lists.freedesktop.org' if input from UX is needed.
Noticing that a document I'm editing has slowed down enormously (Writer is becoming unresponsive), I wanted to know the number of comments. Notes: 1) I would not have found the method of Navigator + Comments selection without coming back to this bug and finding Dieter's helpful note. BUT: 2) I think the number displayed there is very wrong. I'm on page 283, averaging a few comments on every page (maybe higher!), yet the number displayed is 283. My estimate is the true number of comments is between 600 and 1200. Yes, confirmed. If I move to another page, the number displayed in the Navigator field is the current page number . That's pointless, since I can also see it on the page footer, or on the status bar. Surely adding the comments total to the Statistics tab of the file properties would be simple? More importantly, it would be far more user friendly and discoverable for the non-expert user. It would be good of course to actually have the total number of comments displayed in the Navigator+Comments pane, as Dieter thought it did already.
Heiko Tietze committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/90e3af16c12f94f487ff7516048a239db1d2ff7d Resolves tdf#95329 - Number of comments in word count dialog It will be available in 24.2.0. 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.
The number of comments in the document is now shown in the word count dialog. It pops up when you click on the word count panel in the statusbar.
Sounds great, thank you!
I'm just now running 24.2.0.0 Version: 24.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 24d0a62bd75b9a895c419aa165da648ab18f134d CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.18; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded I can't see the number of comments in the Properties/Statistics panel. When I opened the Navigator (took about two minutes, locked my entire desktop so I was wondering whether I'd need to reboot), and opened the Comments entry, there was nothing that showed the total number of comments. It doesn't appear near the word count and character count info on the status bar. Am I looking in the wrong place? I opened the Navigator's Comments list and clicked on the bottom-most comment, thinking that perhaps the number in the text field to the right of the "Comments" button in the Navigator might show the number of the last comment, so I could find it out that way, but it didn't change. The Up and Down arrows to the right of the Comments button (drop down Navigator menu item) also had no visible effect on anything, and didn't change the number (which was always 22, FWIW). Oh, that number seems to relate to something to do with the page number - but not the page number you're on. I think it's a page number you might choose to jump to by using the + or - button to its right. It doesn't display the page number you're actually on. Oh, I just now also found the Window/Word Count menu item, that pops up a panel, but it doesn't have an entry for number of comments either. I just can't find it, sorry.
Oh, and on the document I tested it on, performance was excruciating. Just hitting Page Down, took about ten seconds to actually do so. I think after performance was improved for documents with many comments, the performance has regressed again.
Oh, part of the problem may be that it's flooding the terminal I started it from with messages like: warn:linguistic:2093986:2093986:linguistic/source/lngprophelp.cxx:632: unknown property 'HyphZone' warn:linguistic:2093986:2093986:linguistic/source/lngprophelp.cxx:632: unknown property 'HyphNoLastWord' warn:linguistic:2093986:2093986:linguistic/source/lngprophelp.cxx:632: unknown property 'HyphZone' warn:linguistic:2093986:2093986:linguistic/source/lngprophelp.cxx:632: unknown property 'HyphNoLastWord' warn:linguistic:2093986:2093986:linguistic/source/lngprophelp.cxx:632: unknown property 'HyphZone' warn:linguistic:2093986:2093986:linguistic/source/lngprophelp.cxx:632: unknown property 'HyphNoLastWord' warn:linguistic:2093986:2093986:linguistic/source/lngprophelp.cxx:632: unknown property 'HyphZone' warn:linguistic:2093986:2093986:linguistic/source/lngprophelp.cxx:632: unknown property 'HyphNoLastWord' Large numbers of such lines appear if I move forward a page in my document. BTW, sorry, I meant Tools/Word Count... not Window/Word Count as I mistakenly wrote in my previous comment.
Created attachment 188607 [details] Screenshot (In reply to Luke Kendall from comment #14) > Am I looking in the wrong place? (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #12) > The number of comments in the document is now shown in the word count > dialog. It pops up when you click on the word count panel in the statusbar. Hope the screenshot makes it more clear. Regarding the performance I suggest to find a ticket where this is being discussed or create a new ideally with a test document. Developers likely also needs some details on your environment.
Created attachment 188612 [details] Screenshot of my version As you can see, it's not included in the version I have installed, running on Linux, for a document with thousands of comments. Version: 24.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 24d0a62bd75b9a895c419aa165da648ab18f134d CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.18; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded
(In reply to Luke Kendall from comment #18) > Created attachment 188612 [details] > Screenshot of my version > > As you can see, it's not included in the version I have installed, running > on Linux, for a document with thousands of comments. > > Version: 24.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community > Build ID: 24d0a62bd75b9a895c419aa165da648ab18f134d > CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.18; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 > Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US > Calc: threaded Your build is not new enough.
Please try the nightly build again now.
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #12) > The number of comments in the document is now shown in the word count > dialog. It pops up when you click on the word count panel in the statusbar. VERIFIED with Version: 24.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: c0c8cffd3541e3cd616c96791b04e7ebf2b2ed03 CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19045; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: de-DE (de_DE); UI: en-GB Calc: CL threaded
Heiko, shouldn't this belong to "File > Properties > Statistics" rather than "Tools > Wordcount" ? Plus, the current implementation doesn't give a number for the "Selection" column.
(In reply to Stéphane Guillou (stragu) from comment #22) > Heiko, shouldn't this belong to "File > Properties > Statistics" rather than > "Tools > Wordcount" ? Sure, if you mean in addition. (Don't think this statistics is used much.) > Plus, the current implementation doesn't give a number for the "Selection" > column. Is there a use case for number of comments in a selection?
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #23) > (In reply to Stéphane Guillou (stragu) from comment #22) > > Heiko, shouldn't this belong to "File > Properties > Statistics" rather than > > "Tools > Wordcount" ? > Sure, if you mean in addition. (Don't think this statistics is used much.) > > > Plus, the current implementation doesn't give a number for the "Selection" > > column. > Is there a use case for number of comments in a selection? Which version of Writer is this in? I don't see it in 7.5.3.2. (Is version 24.x.y some other versioning system?) I personally have never needed to know how many comments there were in a selection. I wouldn't expect to find that under file>properties>statistics. If the no. of comments were reported in the Tools>Word Count then I can imagine there might be rare cases where knowing the number of comments in a selection was helpful. One simple use case might be a large selection, and wanting to know whether there were zero comments within that selection. (Your workflow might involve deleting each comment as it's addressed, for example.) Although maybe you could Find/Replace with comments to find a comment within a selection? Just my 2c. HTH.
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #23) I'm not advocating for knowing how many comments there are in a selection, my point was: it feels out of place in Word Count, I think it would make more sense to only have it in Document Statistics. (In reply to Luke Kendall from comment #24) > Which version of Writer is this in? I don't see it in 7.5.3.2. (Is version > 24.x.y some other versioning system?) This is the next version, to be released in a few days. You can test pre-releases and daily builds to check features before they are released, see https://www.libreoffice.org/download/pre-releases/