Issue 37817 - Font control buttons behave poorly from side toolbar
Summary: Font control buttons behave poorly from side toolbar
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: 680m62
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
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Keywords: oooqa
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Reported: 2004-11-25 04:44 UTC by drc
Modified: 2013-08-07 14:38 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description drc 2004-11-25 04:44:29 UTC 
With the default toolbar configuration (notably, the character button not
visible in the format toolbar)

1.Highlight some text, right click, select font and change to Arial
2.Highlight some text, right click, select character and change the background
colour.
3.Drag the format tool bar to the left of the page.
4.Select font name on that toolbar.

The character property dialogue is presented with the background tab selected -
the same is true if font size is selected.

Recommendation - after moving the toolbar connect the font button to the 'right
click select font' menu first used above, not to the character menu. 
Alternatively, reset the tab selection when the tool bar moves to the side (ugh?)

Similarly font size.  Incidentally, the right click menu when text is
highlighted could also usefully have 'font name' rather than font as a legend.

This release looks much better so far - well done everybody!
Comment 1 drc 2004-11-25 04:52:34 UTC 
PS - on the moved toolbar, the style button now seems to be dead.
Comment 2 michael.ruess 2004-11-25 10:24:14 UTC 
reassigned to ES.
Comment 3 eric.savary 2004-11-25 10:49:14 UTC 
ES->BH: when placed vertically, the Formatting toolbar (as well as others
containing drop down listboxes) displays the Font Name and Font Size drop down
listboxesas icons which slots open the CHaracter properties dialog.

Could it be possible, for consistency and smoother work, to link each button to
the dialog AND the corresponding tabpage (Font) ?
Comment 4 drc 2004-11-25 22:06:55 UTC 
Issue 37918 raised to separate out the additional problem with the style button.
Comment 5 ace_dent 2006-01-26 14:48:15 UTC 
Confirmed with OOo 680m152, on XP SP2, PC.

Problem still exists. I agree with the suggestion by 'es', would expect at least
the toolbar to link to the correct tabs. Related issue 37918 appears to be fixed
and has been closed. A small bug, the 'Font' icon is always highlighted when the
toolbar is docked on the left hand side.

Regards,
Andrew
Comment 6 bettina.haberer 2010-05-21 14:55:53 UTC 
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on
my owner to the owner "requirements".