Bug 73070

Summary:	UI: "Insert shapes" does not belong under "Properties"
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Tin Man <newsletters>
Component:	Drawing	Assignee:	Rob Snelders <programming>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium	CC:	cno
Version:	4.1.0.4 release
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:	BSA target:4.3.0
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Tin Man 2013-12-27 14:25:14 UTC

In the Sidebar under "Properties", there is an "Insert shapes" section.
That's inconsistent with the purpose of the Properties panel (which should show properties related to the current selection) as well as with other modules -- this section doesn't appear in any other modules, despite the fact that they have the exact same drawing tools.

For the sake of consistency, this section should be removed.
Operating System: All
Version: 4.3.0.0.alpha0+ Master

Comment 1 Cor Nouws 2013-12-27 21:09:21 UTC

Indeed not consistent. But with enough space, and if people use the side panel.. one could use that space for the toolbar that then can be hidden???
:)

Comment 2 Tin Man 2013-12-27 23:44:06 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Indeed not consistent. But with enough space, and if people use the side
> panel.. one could use that space for the toolbar that then can be hidden???
> :)

In general, it's best practice to put things where they logically belong. Otherwise, inconsistency slowly creeps in and we end up with a mess. This is already apparent in e.g. the current command organization, which is one of the most frequent complaints about LibreOffice. Some things are in the menu bar, some in the toolbar, some in the panel, some in the status bar, some elsewhere, and many in several of those. There are categories like "Edit" or "Tools" in the menu bar, or "Standard" for a toolbar, where anything could belong.

So... Let's not dig ourselves further into this mess, but instead let's try to solve it. :)

Comment 3 Cor Nouws 2013-12-27 23:55:29 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)

> So... Let's not dig ourselves further into this mess, but instead let's try
> to solve it. :)

Convincing argument :)
Setting version to 4.1.0 release - first in which Side panel is integrated (as experimental)

Comment 4 Rob Snelders 2014-02-03 11:36:39 UTC

submitted a patch for this https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/7804

Comment 5 Commit Notification 2014-02-05 21:01:33 UTC

Rob Snelders committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=7cd90162f1c4a1d763e40c8f9972fd59e219ccd1

fdo#73070 - UI: "Insert shapes" does not belong under "Properties"



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.

Comment 6 Ljiljan 2014-08-28 06:48:38 UTC

The original solution was space-saving. Removing Shapes from Sidebar, from my point of view, was not neccessary. It didn't create any problem and helped me to remove one unneccessary toolbar from my screen.  

After all, you could rename "Properties" to "Shapes & properties" and then you have consistent solution!

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