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Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Full Text Issue Listing |
| Summary: | make docking slide pane easier | ||
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| Product: | ui | Reporter: | fkbreitl <frank.breitling> |
| Component: | ui | Assignee: | AOO issues mailing list <issues> |
| Status: | CONFIRMED --- | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | Trivial | ||
| Priority: | P3 | CC: | cno, issues, kami911, rb.henschel |
| Version: | OOO300m5 | Keywords: | oooqa |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | Windows XP | ||
| Issue Type: | ENHANCEMENT | Latest Confirmation in: | --- |
| Developer Difficulty: | --- | ||
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Description
fkbreitl
2008-09-14 17:17:00 UTC
Hold down CTRL-key and double-click onto the free area under the title of the slide pane window. Whether you can dock it by dragging with the mouse, depends on the desktop properties of WinXP. I have only a German WinXP, so I don't know the English terms. But look at context menu of desktop > properties > second last tab > effects > show window content while dragging. This has to be checked. Thank you very much for your fast and helpful response. Anyways I don't consider the issue as solved, because: 1. The docking ability must be independent of the MS Windows settings. 2. "Ctrl-double click in a special area" is a expert trick but can not seriously be considered as intuitive feature of a gui. 3. I propose to add a "Dock slide pane" menu analogously to the task pane menu to avoid any further irritation of users, as suggested by others before. Search for "docking" in the application help leads to the article "Showing, Docking and Hiding Windows" which explains it. It is no "expert" trick. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 34373 *** It is poor gui design if the user has to read the help to learn how to dock a panel and if the window behaviour appears as a bug. I propose to add a "Dock pane" menu to each pane as it already exists in the "task pane" to avoid any further irritation of users. Otherwise this usage issue will come up again and again. See e.g. issue 34373 and issue 23953. Reassigned. Thanks for helping, Regina. *** Issue 93887 has been confirmed by votes. *** This is a serious issue for many users, I numerous blog pages where users have tried to solve this problem using bizarre and completely unintuitive keystrokes. There needs to be a right-click context menu that offers the user the chance to re-dock windows like this. FWIW the the 'ctrl-click' and 'ctrl-shift-click' options mentioned in the blogs didn't work for me with Ubuntu Hardy (and Ubuntu's OOo packages); I had to use the ctrl-shift-F10 keystroke to redock (a clear case of "RTFM or die, loser": *definitely* an 'expert trick', IMHO - good design does not require a user to read a user's manual) changed summary |