Bug 143696 - Development Tools - Minor glitches and improvements
Summary: Development Tools - Minor glitches and improvements
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.2.0.0.beta1+
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
URL:
Whiteboard: target:7.3.0
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Reported: 2021-08-02 20:27 UTC by Rafael Lima
Modified: 2023-08-11 03:05 UTC (History)
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2021-08-02 20:27 UTC, Rafael Lima
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Description Rafael Lima 2021-08-02 20:27:48 UTC
Created attachment 174033 [details]
Images Describing the Issues

Hi! I was writing the Help Page for the new Development Tools feature and came across a few things that still need to be fixed or improved. Because all of them are very minor, I opened a single bug report to include all of them.

1) The DevTools window needs a Help button (see attached ODG - page 1): All dialogs in LO have a default Help button that redirects to the Help system. I believe it would be great to have a Help button here so that users are redirected to the Help page.

2) Slides in Impress are presented as "pages" (see attached ODG - page 2): I believe it would be better to simply use "Silde 1" instead of "page 1".

3) In the Properties tab the first column seems to be incorrectly named. I believe the correct name should be "Property" instead of "Object" (see attached ODG - page 3)

4) Sequences should be ordered according to their indices numerically (see attached ODG - page 4). I believe this would be more natural to users.

5) The textual representation in the Properties tab is not updated when the user selects another object (see attached ODG - page 5). The example was done in Calc: "Current Selection" was enabled and I selected a single cell B2. Then I chose cell B3 and the Property "Absolute Name" was updated in the table view, but not in the textual description.
Comment 1 Rafael Lima 2021-08-02 20:30:23 UTC
Hi Tomaz, could you please give your insights about these issues?
Comment 2 Commit Notification 2021-08-03 02:49:04 UTC
Tomaž Vajngerl committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/cd3289e3878f35ba66e0f0b7d62e3cbcb6e53f4b

tdf#143696 rename Properties tree view column from Object to Name

It will be available in 7.3.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 3 Tomaz Vajngerl 2021-08-03 03:07:04 UTC
1) All dialogs have a help button, but panels don't have. Anyway - sure can add.
2) The "page n" naming is not part of DevTools, but uses the "Name" property of the Slide/Page object and for some reason the name is "page n" and not "slide n" (most likely because the object is SdDrawPage and we don't have a special case when it represents slides.
3) Renamed... to "Name", which is more consistent how other columns are named. 
4) Right, the problem is the order is alphabetical, so the indices should prepend 0 to be able to sort them correctly.
5) Yes, sounds like a bug.
Comment 4 Rafael Lima 2021-08-10 22:02:31 UTC
(In reply to Tomaz Vajngerl from comment #3)

> 2) The "page n" naming is not part of DevTools, but uses the "Name" property
> of the Slide/Page object and for some reason the name is "page n" and not
> "slide n" (most likely because the object is SdDrawPage and we don't have a
> special case when it represents slides.

I thought that might be the case. Thanks for the info.

> 3) Renamed... to "Name", which is more consistent how other columns are
> named. 

I liked the choice for "Name" to use in this column. However, the "Methods" tab has a new column named "Method" instead of "Name". How about changing this "Method" column to "Name" as well?

> 4) Right, the problem is the order is alphabetical, so the indices should
> prepend 0 to be able to sort them correctly.

I thought they were sorted using integer indices.
Comment 5 QA Administrators 2023-08-11 03:05:45 UTC
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