Bug 160494 - Increase comment (annotations) width in Writer
Summary: Increase comment (annotations) width in Writer
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.6.6.3 release
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: accessibility
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Reported: 2024-04-02 21:02 UTC by bilgehan_cagiltay
Modified: 2024-04-03 00:54 UTC (History)
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Description bilgehan_cagiltay 2024-04-02 21:02:50 UTC
Description:
This is in reference to the post by sbxjld (https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/increase-comment-annotations-width-in-writer/102950). I was unable to find an enhancement request made by them and took it upon myself to create it instead.

As sbxjld descibes, the comments panel in the Writer app can be too narrow for certain situations. It is not rare for me to receive documents featuring long comments or writing long comments. An option to be able to extend the width of this panel/section would help in legibility for documents with a long or dense comments section.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open LibreOffice Writer
2. Write a sample text
3. Highlight the text
4. right click on the highlighted text
5. select "insert comment"

Actual Results:
A "comments" tab appears to the right of the page. It is not possible to resize this tab by clicking the sides of the tab on the scale indicator at the top of the application. Similarly, it is not possible to resize this tab through the settings. The tab label on the scale indicator is not right-clickable, meaning this is not a possible method of modification either

Expected Results:
One of the three following options, or an alternative equally accessible method:
- be able to drag the "comments" tab on the scale bar, such that it can resize
- be able to right click the tab and select "modify width" from the possible options (if any).
- go into settings and enter a new width value for this tab, which will take effect after applying said changes. This option is less preferred but still valid if a modification to the "core engine," as stated by ajlittoz, requires more steps.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
Version: 7.6.6.3 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: d97b2716a9a4a2ce1391dee1765565ea469b0ae7
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19045; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (C); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded
Comment 1 m_a_riosv 2024-04-03 00:54:41 UTC
Please take a look into tdf#159851