| Summary: | Line thickness specification - too many choices, nonintuitive | ||
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| Product: | LibreOffice | Reporter: | Milos Sramek <msramek22> |
| Component: | UI | Assignee: | Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs> |
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | medium | CC: | bfo.bugmail, bitigchi, jmadero.dev, qubit |
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | Other | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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| i915 platform: | i915 features: | ||
| Attachments: | A mockup of eventual GUI changes related to line/frame thickness width | ||
There are nearly no trivial tasks in a code base as large as LibO. if you want to prove me wrong please start implementing it: I can give you some code pointers. Created attachment 59895 [details] A mockup of eventual GUI changes related to line/frame thickness width (In reply to comment #1) > There are nearly no trivial tasks in a code base as large as LibO. if you want > to prove me wrong please start implementing it: I can give you some code > pointers. I did not mean "trivial" in the programmers sense, just "simple" from the point of view of the GUI. I can give it a try, please send me the pointers. Meanwhile, I played a little with the GUI, it looks like there is enough space for the changes. My mockups are attached. M Did you try to post your usability enhancement proposals on libreoffice-ux-advise@lists.freedesktop.org list? More people thinking your way, more chances someone will pick this bug up and implement. Setting as duplicate of the other borders UI bug... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 47194 *** Sorry... setting that as duplicate was probably unnecessary as this has quite a different scope. IMHO this should be a real priority about Calc development. All my LO using friends (including me) are frustrated about not being able to set cell border thickness and cell border options when multiple cells are selected in an easy way. +1 Never independently confirmed by QA - moving to UNCONFIRMED. Sounds like a plausible enhancement, and there's some good conversation about implementing changes, so: Status -> NEW |
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If a line/frame/cell border thickness is to be specified, a user has too many options: he/she should directly specify numerical value of the thickness. From the usability point of view there are several issues: - It is likely that most users just need only a couple of options (thin, medium, thick - or eventually 5 levels) - If several thicknesses are used, one should remember the values - the value is expressed in the measurement unit, specified in Tools/Options... If one wants a thin (medium, thick) line, which value is appropriate? 0,5mm? 0.01 inch? I do not know - if one opens such file in different LO with different unit settings, he/she gets different numbers - stepping of the numerical field is not fine enough (1mm steps) - we have two different widgets for that - one for graphical objects (lines...) and one for borders of frames and cells. They are not consistent: *If the same value is specified there, the actual thickness of lines and frames is different (try a 0.5pt line and cell border in calc - the daily LO3.6 was used) *Thin line has 0pt, thin border 0.05pt *Increment in line setting is 1(pt), in borders 0.25 So, a mess. I know about a company, which switched to LO - unintuitive setting of border thickness in Calc is the most hated feature among many users there. Perhaps, just simple change in UI of both widgets would improve the situation significantly. 1. Instead of the numeric field alone, give the user a possibility to choose from "thin", "medium", "thick" line and add a "more" button, which would open the numeric field for setting arbitrary dimensions. 2. In Calc, extend the "Borders" options (which currently offers 3x4 combinations of thin borders) to 5x12 offers of thin, medium, thick, double... lines with all 12 combinations. I believe this is not that much work. Milos