[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 83830] SIDEBAR: Proposal for the creation of a page tab

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83830

--- Comment #3 from Mirek2 <mazelm@gmail.com> ---
I'll comment on your second mockup
(https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/attachments/download/211/Proposal-page-2-mod.png),
which I prefer.

I'm sorely missing page styles, which should really be the highlight here. A
button offering to update the page style when it changes (a la styles in Pages:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73071#c17) would be great.

Orientation makes more sense as a button, as it's binary.

I'd prefer "Paper Format" as a category heading rather than "Format". "Format"
could apply to any of the properties, the "Paper" part makes it clear what it's
about.

I don't think "Others" should be a section -- try to organize it. I'd suggest
to put Layout, Columns, and Numbers (called "Format" under "Layout settings" in
LibreOffice) under a "Layout" section. I'm not sure about "Background". Is the
background printed with the document, or does it just imply the color of the
paper to print on? If it's the latter, then I'd suggest Paper Format. Then
again, since you didn't include all page properties, I'm thinking Background is
one of the least important items to include. I wouldn't include it, at least
not in Writer.

Lastly, I think designing a one-size-fits-all Page panel is suboptimal (e.g.
not all modules have page styles). I'd suggest to look at each module
individually and propose one for each (keeping the same structure, though).

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