| Summary: | Quickfind sidebar: make better use of space for search results | ||
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| Product: | LibreOffice | Reporter: | Heiko Tietze <heiko.tietze> |
| Component: | Writer | Assignee: | Heiko Tietze <heiko.tietze> |
| Status: | ASSIGNED --- | ||
| Severity: | minor | CC: | dgp-mail, dpskhu13108, eyalroz1, raykowj, stephane.guillou, vsfoote |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 24.8.0.0 alpha0+ | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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| Crash report or crash signature: | Regression By: | ||
| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 161449 | ||
| Attachments: | Screenshot | ||
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Description
Heiko Tietze
2024-04-05 13:44:38 UTC
I confirm it with Version: 24.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 7c2ed9919d6d9d286d9062b91577d6bb2b7de8aa CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19045; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: de-DE (de_DE); UI: en-GB Calc: CL threaded But I would treat this as anhancement and not as a bug. *** Bug 160999 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 160999 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** I'm actually against variable space for results, at least by default. I would rather have equal size - but small equal size, without gratuitous spacing. See my comments on bug 160999 and sorry for the "status change spam". Related concerns were brought up in bug 160999, which should be taken into account when fixing the Find Sidebar's inadequate use of space. My summary of Eyal's comments: - too much whitespace between matches currently - results could all be single-line - uniform and variable height have pros and cons (you said "width" in bug 160999 comment 11 but I assume you meant "height") - if multi-line allowed, number of lines of context could be controlled by a setting - if need to truncate, always show beginning of search string and truncate the rest to the width of sidebar Eyal, feel free to correct the above. Regarding a potential "context setting", see also attachment 189564 [details] showing how Voyant Tools' "Contexts" widget offers control over how much is shown, in both single-line view and in "expanded" view. I created that attachment for the enhancement request to the Search Results dialog in bug 157227. *** Bug 160999 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** (In reply to Stéphane Guillou (stragu) from comment #5) So, there are two conflicting user "desires" or interests which are expressed in this bug and in the dupe bug: * The desire for search result listings to take up vertical space to **vertically fit their contents** (rather then made uniform with empty space) * The desire to examine many results in a cursory manner, which is catered to by assigning them **short, uniform, heights**. It doesn't seem any of these desires can be just discounted/discarded in favor of the other ones - meaning that some configurability is in order in how this is resolved. Heiko, as you devise approach(es) for handling this, I would appreciate it if you could give a rough plan of what you intend to implement, for us to provide some more feedback. A few other points from the dupe bug or inspired by it: 1. Let's not be afraid of truncation. There's always the possibility of putting more text in a tooltip; and the user can always click a truncated result to bring it up in the main part of the window, for the full context. 2. The context for a search term match isn't very well-defined. One can always go wider, with surrounding lines or paragraphs, or narrower, taking just a sentence rather than a paragraph, or a clause in a sentence etc. 3. Search terms are: (a) usually quite short, much less than the width of the sidebar; but also (b) sometimes very long, e.g. a full sentence, so that they don't even fit the sidebar and will themselves be truncated. |