Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 27632
text alignment and widget (polygon, box, ellipse) sizing
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:41:01 UTC
I have a couple of suggestions for improving the usability of the OO drawing application and i will try to present them as lucidly as possible. I am not going to explain why i think these things should be this way unless requested (when i will happily explain my reasoning) because i think that most are rather self explanatory. For the purposes of this enhancement container will mean any box, ellipse, polygon, or free formed line. I would like to be able to resize any container based on the size requirements of the text contained within. For example the container would proportionally scale as the text requirements grew. The already seems possible if you choose to use a text box instead of a normal box but the options are grayed out when you return to the dialog with a regular box selected. Maybe we can commonize the code for resizing and apply it to any container. I think that the “slant and corner radius” and the “rotation” tabs should be available under styles editing. They don't have as much to to with position as they have to do with appearance and being able to auto rotate based on styles would be fantastic improvement. I would like to be able to add text to a polygon and have it behave like text added to any other container (see above definition). Currently the functionality of this in particular is a little ambiguous. You cant double click to enter text but if you click on the text tool while you have it highlighted a carat appears in the center. I would like to be able to separate the alignment (angle) of the text and the angle of the container should i choose to do so. Leave them joined by default just allow me to rotate the text should i choose. I think this option should go under styles as well. Well thats it. In recap i would like a common container/text interaction that is configurable through the use of styles (and manually if you like to waste time :)). I would like to be able to rotate the contained text and the container independently of each other but in relation to the object original orientation. Please accept my great thanks for an otherwise intuitive and increasingly useful application. With these changes i see no place for the excruciating exercise that is creating diagrams using Dia.
i will be available all week for clarification and discussion. i will check back regularly.
This seems to be more an enhancement than a defect.... Reassigned to Bettina.
Sorry about that i guess i missed the field. It is an enhancement request.
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To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".