Bug 32413

Summary: EasyHacks: Add an "Apply" button to formatting dialogs
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: RGB <rgbl>
Component: UIAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: CLOSED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: medium    
Version: 3.3.0 RC1   
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)   
OS: Linux (All)   
Whiteboard: EasyHack
i915 platform: i915 features:

Description RGB 2010-12-15 09:00:25 UTC 
Suppose you are building a drawing on Draw or Impress and you need certain object to be on a precise position/with a precise size/border line... You right click the object, go to the corresponding menu and change the values. Then you click OK... just to realize that you need to change those values one more time.
This situation is quite common: when you have several graphic object many iteration are usually needed to obtain the right layout. Opening every time the menus in this situation is suboptimal: an Apply button that apply the settings without closing the dialogs will be an interesting addition, specially on Draw and Impress, but it could be useful on Writer too when you edit a style: seeing how the text change before you close the dialog could help a lot.
Comment 1 Jan Holesovsky 2010-12-20 22:25:36 UTC 
Sounds interesting, can you please add it to the Easy Hacks?

http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Easy_Hacks

Somewhere between the easy programming tasks...  Thank you!
Comment 2 Jan Holesovsky 2010-12-20 22:31:49 UTC 
Actually, it is enough to add a flag to the subject, let me do that.
Comment 3 Miklos Vajna 2011-03-23 05:19:42 UTC 
I'm taking this one till 2010-03-30.
Comment 4 Miklos Vajna 2011-03-28 05:27:18 UTC 
The "writer style edit dialog" part of this is now implemented:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/writer/commit/
Comment 6 Jan Holesovsky 2011-03-29 00:08:19 UTC 
And the nice blog entry about that: http://vmiklos.hu/blog/lo-apply

Thank you Miklos, great stuff! :-)
Comment 7 Michael Meeks 2011-04-04 05:48:12 UTC 
closing this; the new easy hack to preserve dialog location is filed separately.
Comment 8 Christian Lohmaier 2011-04-16 07:47:13 UTC 
verified
Comment 9 Christian Lohmaier 2011-04-16 07:47:41 UTC 
closing

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