[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 83026] Sidebar should open on the left side in accordance with the GNOME HIG

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83026

--- Comment #10 from Jay Philips <philipz85@hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> It appears to me that many of you haven't actually tried working with a
> sidebar on the left. How could you--you've all responded far too quickly to
> have any credibility about this.
>
> And when the sidebar is placed on the left, the effect of opening and
> closing it is the same on the viewable area as opening and closing it on the
> right, making it not any more intrusive than opening it from the left.
> (although the shifting of the area to the right can be a bit jerk-y)

I personally do not to use the sidebar in writer as i havent find suitable
advantage to it over the toolbars, but i do keep it active to constantly check
it out. But i have used the sidebar in calc and like it on the left side, as it
doesnt move my view from the left corner of the screen, the same way i normally
view things in IDEs like UltraEdit.

> This change would be in all of them. Impress and Draw would either have the
> sidebar on the left next to the slide chooser or integrate the slide chooser
> as part of the sidebar. I'll admit the first option is awkward, but it gets
> the job done.

Having the slides centered in impress i feel is a great thing as it keeps the
users eyes in the center.

> Mirek, I have to admit I did agree with you when I was first thinking about
> this change, but, when thinking about how this idea works in practice, I
> changed my mind. If you look at the layout of an app like Geary, it flows
> from selecting accounts to emails to the email you are reading. While the
> components at the left are arguably less "important" than the email at hand,
> they are on the left because they act on the content at the right and
> therefore should be viewed first. In fact, if you look at gnome apps, the
> more "essential" stuff like content goes at the right, while the chrome is
> on the left. So the heirarchy that needs to be conveyed in top-to-botton
> left-to-right is not really about priority, but what you use to act on what.
> And in LibreOffice, the sidebar is used to act on the document, and not the
> other way around. While elements of the sidebar do change depending on what
> you are editing and looking at, the mental model of working with the sidebar
> is still that the sidebar acts on the document, not that the document acts
> on it. 

From what i've seen, navigation is normally placed on the left side (email
clients, find in ms word, pdf viewers), while other things are placed on the
right (styles in ms word, tag lists in text editors).

http://www.inndir.com/img/pimg/UltraEdit-dqdn-296.jpg
http://i.stack.imgur.com/ybBGe.png

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