Bug 56973 - UI: Copy / Paste sole sheet of a spreadsheet wrongly looks inactive
Summary: UI: Copy / Paste sole sheet of a spreadsheet wrongly looks inactive
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: ux-advise (show other bugs)
Version: Inherited From OOo
Hardware: Other All
: medium trivial
Assignee: Not Assigned
QA Contact: Joel Madero
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Reported: 2012-11-11 07:40 UTC by Rainer Bielefeld Retired
Modified: 2014-11-20 23:41 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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2013-02-11 06:05 UTC, Rainer Bielefeld Retired
Details

Description Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2012-11-11 07:40:17 UTC
Steps how to reproduce with parallel installation of Master "LOdev  3.7.0.0.alpha0+   -  ENGLISH UI / German Locale  [Build ID: 70ec82)]"  {tinderbox: @16, pull time 2012-11-09 00:53:19} on German WIN7 Home Premium (64bit) with separate User Profile for Master Branch:

1. Start LibO
2. Open New Spreadsheet using start center button
3. If Document contains more than 1 sheet:
   Menu 'tools -> Optiopns -> Calc -> Defaults' change 'Number of worksheets
   in new document" to 1 <ok>
   Close libo and restart from 1
4. type an "a" into cell A1
5. 'Right click sheet tab "Sheet1" -> Move/Copy sheet'
   Expected: Radio button "Move" greyd out, because it's not possible to
            move a sheet in a document only containing this sole sheet.
            Radio button "Copy" active and selected
   Actual:  Selected radio button "copy" is greyed out, looks inactive
6. <ok>
   > A uplicate of "Sheet1" will be added.

So the function works fine as expected, but UI wrongly looks as if copy would be impossible. The problem seems to be that both radio buttons are buttons are marked inactive by the same condition, but they need different ones for the "only 1 sheet" case.
Comment 1 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2012-11-11 07:47:30 UTC
This problem is already [Reproducible] with "LibreOffice 3.3.0 RC4 - WIN7  Home Premium (64bit) German UI  [OOO330m19 (build 6 / tag 3.3.0.4)]" and OOo 3.1.1, so this problem is inherited from OOo.

One reason for the current behavior might be that in the past there only was a checkbox instead our 2 radio buttons, and there the only way was to mark the Checkbox inactive with checkmark if no selection is possible.

I wonder whether it is possible to mark some of the possible radio button selections inactive and other ones active? So may be this is not a bug report but an enhancement request?
Comment 2 Joel Madero 2013-02-11 04:31:45 UTC
Rainer - this one looks fixed to me on 3.6.4.3, going to mark as WFM. If I'm wrong, my apologies :)

Tested on: 

3.6.4.3 release Bodhi Linux

4.0.0.3 release on Windows 7
Comment 3 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2013-02-11 06:02:25 UTC
The question was not whether it works, but whether UI looks intuitive. So here we have a design question.

Looks as reported in any of my Versions with any of my Profiles (or fresh new profile) until 4.1.0.0.+:

'Move/Copy sheet' for the only single sheet of a document shows up the expected dialog, but both radio buttons 'Action' are greyed out.

The question is whether that is in accordance with style guides, or even whether we have style guides for such cases.

Unfortunately I did not find a similar case with 2 radio buttons, but for example see attached screenshot comparison, wehre "greyed out" has different meaning.

I think we should try a better unification to make I more intuitive.

I will leave a comment at <libreoffice-ux-advise@lists.freedesktop.org>
Comment 4 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2013-02-11 06:05:00 UTC
Created attachment 74579 [details]
Screenshot comparison

Please see Comment 3!
Comment 5 Stefan Knorr (astron) 2013-04-11 21:30:03 UTC
Agree with Rainer that this could use some looking through.

I guess it might be best to rename the option to Copy Sheet everywhere in this situation, i.e. context menu, window title. In the given situation, we could then also remove the confusing greyed out selector.
Comment 6 Joel Madero 2014-11-06 21:51:07 UTC
Never independently confirmed - moving to UNCONFIRMED.
Comment 7 raal 2014-11-20 22:42:16 UTC
I can confirm with Version: 4.4.0.0.alpha2+
Build ID: 2f342c61616418c6ad7303d7f5efa27a28378681
TinderBox: Linux-rpm_deb-x86_64@46-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2014-11-16_00:33:40

Changing component to ux-advice to decide if implement.
Comment 8 Jacques Guilleron 2014-11-20 23:41:49 UTC
I reproduce too with 
LO 3.5.3.2 Version ID : 235ab8a-3802056-4a8fed3-2d66ea8-e241b80
LO 4.4.0.0.alpha1+ Build ID: a8c24b25fd9fb21097a08a22797bf61b59099ea1
TinderBox: Win-x86@39, Branch:master, Time: 2014-10-21_06:33:33
& windows 7 Home Premium.

regards,

Jacques


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