

Another click and the panel is expanded to its former size. When the panel title bar is shown then a mouse click on it collapses the panel to just its title bar. In that case the panel title bar is usually not displayed and the deck title is the same as the panel title. Some of these are displayed in the context sensitive 'Properties' deck, others are displayed in a deck on their own. Seven panels come from the old Impress tool panel: Available for Use, Custom Animation, Layouts, Recently Used, Slide Transition, Table Design, Used in This Presentation.įour are non-modal (ie non locking) dialogs: Functions, Gallery, Navigator, Styles and Formatting. A click on one of the buttons on the tab bar restores the deck to its former width.Įleven property panels have been migrated from IBM Lotus Symphony: Alignment, Area, Cell Appearance, Graphic, Line, Number Format, Page, Paragraph, Position and Size, Text and Wrap. This transitional state is indicated by an arrow that is displayed in place of the deck. When the sidebar becomes too small to be usable it collapses to the tab bar. The controls in its panels are adjusted accordingly. The speed and scope of this change depends on feedback from our users. It is our plan to reduce functions provided in toolbars and provide them only in the sidebar. This duplicity is the result of a design decision to allow users to gradually learn to use the sidebar. For example, the buttons for making text bold or italic exist in both the text toolbar and the Text panel. The user can freely mix working in the edit view to eg enter text and use the Text panel to change text attributes.Īt the moment, toolbars and sidebar panels share many functions. That means that sidebar panels do not lock the document. When text is being edited then it contains panels for changing the font or text attributes, when a graphical object is selected then other panels give access to fill and line style as well as the object's position and size.ĭifferent panels in Properties deck for different contexts (from left to right): text editing, logo pasted as outline, logo pasted as bitmapĪ panel is basically a mix of a toolbar and a non-modal dialog. The Properties deck is context sensitive. A tab bar on the right side of the sidebar allows to switch between different decks. It contains one or more panels, based on the current document context. The sidebar window is located on the right side of the edit views of Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Base. 2.22 Used in This Presentation (Impress only).
