Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 43869
Floating panels should be docked by default
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:38:26 UTC
Unless your monitor is set at a resolution of 1280x1024, the floating panels, and in particular the style picker panel, will get in the way of what your writing. The only way to avoid this is to manually resize the OOo window to 850 pixels width, and place the style picker in the free space. Now that OpenOffice 2.0 has an API for docks (as seen in Presenter and Database) you should look at using these to replace the floating panels. This will obviate the need to resize windows as described above. It's also been the standard in Microsoft Office since XP, and I find it is a lot easier to use. This actually applies to all panels in all applications, but the style panel is the main one.
I'm an idiot, just saw that these panels are now dockable. I'd still like to see them docked by default though. Also you should have a grabber at the top of each docked panel to take it out, it's a bit unexpected to have to click on the buttons and drag. But mainly, I'm an idiot. Apologies! :-/
Reassigned to ES.
Feature description: 1) dockable pannels should have a visible UI element helping (un)docking them 2) dockable pannels should be docked by default
That's a good idea! It is a reasonble workaround / hotfix for the hiding-floating-windows-on-focus-change problem. Please refer also to my comment on Issue 39420.
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