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

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

--- Comment #5 from Jay Philips <philipz85@hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> (Adding this, since it was the clear inspiration.)

Yes iWork Pages was the primary inspiration for the mockup.

(In reply to comment #3)
> 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.

A page styles drop down isnt needed as a user can easily change the page's
assigned page style in the statusbar and 'styles and formatting' tab. When
users are modifying the data in the page tab, they are modifying the style. :)

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

Yes it is binary, but it would simply take up 2 lines for no real benefit.

> 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.

The heading of the tab is 'Page', so it is to be understood that 'Format' is
'Page Format'.

> 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.

'Others' is the temporary label i've gone with the for the time being as
something more useful hasnt popped to mind. 'Layout' isnt suitable as there is
already a Layout entry.

> 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.

Background is from the background/area tab in the page style drop down. It is
useful as it is highly used in impress and draw.

> 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).

There isnt a need to make multiple ones because very little is being changed
between the modules, as can be seen in attachment 106236. I have also removed
header and footer details from the 'Others' section, as it wont be utilized in
impress and draw, so it wont be shown there.

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