Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 42272
Impossibility to hide or move the views bar
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:40:46 UTC
I am testing the Impress module of the OO2 beta (1.9.74). I have tried without success to hide or move the (hideous!) "views bar" (I do not know if this is the correct name, I couldn't find any reference to it in the help system either), that horizontal gray bar with the different views buttons (normal, structure, notes, etc.) that is found immediately above the document page and below the two horizontal symbols bars and the menu commands. Personally I find this bar definitely worse than the small buttons that performed the same functions in OO1.1.3, which very intelligently used some of the space (the upper part) of the vertical scroll bar without stealing precious "screen real estate". Moreover the present horizontal configuration wastes screen space with 70% of its size on a 1024x768 screen: the 5 buttons use in fact only the leftmost third of the bar, while the remaining 2 thirds are apparently totally useless. Of course I do not pretend everyone agrees with my opinion.... if others are happy with it that's good, but it should be allowed to be able to go back to OO1.1.3 placement, or simply hide the grey bar, or move it where you want. Another possibility would be using the empty 2/3 of the bar to show the pages names like "file headers", in the way that was quite functional in OO1.1.3, in line with the horizontal scroll bar, below the document space. It must be kept in mind that it should always be possible for the user to get as much space as before for the document: at present the grey bar seems to be an unavoidable cluttering of this space. Thanks for the attention
Created attachment 22337 [details] The incriminated bar
I forgot to write that the ability to reserve a large space for the document is crucial for another reason: nothing seems to be changed in the screen rendering of math formlas which is as defective as it was in OO113: small characters and sign are omitted or rendered wrongly. Since this behaviour is less of a problem if the page is visualized in larger size, reserving a large space for it on the screen is important. I attach an image of a formula in OO1.9.74 where some minus singns are not visible at all to show the problem.
Created attachment 22338 [details] MAth rendering problem in Impress
To have the tab bar chnaged is an enhancement and not a defect. For the formula problem please write an own issue to the component formula editor. Thanks .
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The issue is obviously not addressed: nothing has changed regarding the unflexible behaviour of the tab bar in Impress. But then I readily agree that this is really an improvement request, and that you learn to live with it, as I myself did in these last 2 years. Still it would be better to move it down together with the horiz. scroll bar, or to give a chance to hide if you seldom use it.