Created attachment 83445 [details] Manipulated screenshot, to hopefully make things clearer. I assume you are using 4.1 or higher and have enabled the experimental sidebar, if not, in LibreOffice go to Tools > Options > LibreOffice/Advanced > Enable Experimental Sidebar. You are then prompted to restart, do it. Just to clear the terminology, in my view, the new experimental sidebar consists of two parts (see screenshot if it's still unclear): 1. a panel selector (the far-right thing) 2. a panel area (the thing that houses Properties, Navigator, Styles panel themselves) (see screenshot if it's still unclear) Now, clicking on one of the buttons in the panel selector will let you go that panel, or in case no panel is open (because you closed it with the X button at the top of the panel area before), it will open. However, clicking the same button again will not close the panel. This is a bit user-hostile, since for one, the button in the panel is a bigger, more colourful target, and for the other, it always helps to have both expected ways of doing something available. Using LibreOffice 4.1.0.4 on Linux x86-64.
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In order to limit the confusion between ProposedEasyHack and EasyHack and to make queries much easier we are changing ProposedEasyHack to NeedsDevEval. Thank you and apologies for the noise
Changed the wording of the header. Explanation: The Toolbox consists of the main Sidebar icons. If you click on such an icon a Deck opens, which itself contains panels (like Character and Page for the Properties Deck).
Thomas Arnhold committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=04e96b6d6eb55b9ff2a6ec9c4ce52260e33df121 fdo#67627 Clicking on icons of the sidebar should both open and close Decks The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
I had to revert this because it had an unwanted side effect (bug 84351). This needs to be redone so that it only closes the deck, when clicked on the tabbar, not when called from somewhere else.
Hello, I'm hoping to have this reimplemented. Libreoffice 4.3.3 on Linux Mint 17 'Qiana' - clicking on the icons in the "1" area as in the picture does not close the toolbar, as was stated by Stefan. This would be a nice enhancement for power users. Thank you!
Samuel Mehrbrodt committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=d59b9b4af36148e4d8df8f3e3492116d378642e2 fdo#67627 fdo#85791 Allow to show/hide sidebar decks with the same command It will be available in 4.4.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
This bug fix comes with LibreOffice 4.4 (release notes https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.4) Tabs icons now also work as a toggle to open/close sidebar decks.
Migrating Whiteboard tags to Keywords: (EasyHack DifficultyBeginner SkillCpp ) [NinjaEdit]