Bug 87676

Summary: TOOLBAR: Hiding 'line and filling', 'text formatting' and image toolbars by default
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Jay Philips <philipz85>
Component: ux-adviseAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: medium CC: cno, libreoffice-ux-advise, s.mehrbrodt
Version: Inherited From OOo   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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i915 platform: i915 features:
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Bug Blocks: 84909    

Description Jay Philips 2014-12-24 10:10:21 UTC
By disabling by default the 'line and filling' and 'text formatting' toolbars, this increases the available space available to viewing the slide, which also simplifies the UI. All features available in these two toolbars are present in the properties tab of the sidebar as well as in the context menu, so there are many advantages to having these hidden by default.
Comment 1 Cor Nouws 2014-12-24 10:49:08 UTC
The formatting tool bars are always visible by default.
Depending on the state, they sort of change appearance. See the discussion with Object.

I advise against changing this.
Comment 2 Jay Philips 2014-12-28 12:12:15 UTC
(In reply to Cor Nouws from comment #1)
> The formatting tool bars are always visible by default.
> Depending on the state, they sort of change appearance.

Yes the object, image, and formatting toolbars hide and unhide depending on context.

> See the discussion with Object.

Didnt understand this part.
Comment 3 Cor Nouws 2014-12-28 21:55:16 UTC
(In reply to Jay Philips from comment #2)
> (In reply to Cor Nouws from comment #1)

> > See the discussion with Object.
> 
> Didnt understand this part.

There was an issue with a weird idea (INMSHO) to ripp the formatting toolbar when an object is selected and change others to replace that :D
Comment 4 Cor Nouws 2015-01-18 11:04:33 UTC
(In reply to Jay Philips from comment #2)

> Yes the object, image, and formatting toolbars hide and unhide depending on
> context.

Indeed, it are only three here.
But with removing two, we would accept the slide area shifting down when an image becomes selected.
Is that worth the gain? I would expect people working with images would be annoyed.
Or is the plan to remove that one too (is all the stuff from the images toolbar to the side bar?) ?


(Now I see that when a frame is selected, the side bar has the character and paragraph parts of the panel active and not the area and line. Must be for another issue?)
Comment 5 Jay Philips 2015-01-19 20:41:21 UTC
(In reply to Cor Nouws from comment #4)
> Is that worth the gain? I would expect people working with images would be
> annoyed.

Yes its about streamlining the UI, as the the properties tab of the sidebar has most, if not all, features available in the 3 toolbars.

> Or is the plan to remove that one too (is all the stuff from the images
> toolbar to the side bar?) ?

Yes the image toolbar would also be hidden as well.

> (Now I see that when a frame is selected, the side bar has the character and
> paragraph parts of the panel active and not the area and line. Must be for
> another issue?)

When you say 'frame', do you mean textbox?

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