| Summary: | In “View” menus and "Tabbed" toolbars, be consistent about “hide / show” | ||
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| Product: | LibreOffice | Reporter: | j.a.swami |
| Component: | UI | Assignee: | BogdanB <buzea.bogdan> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | enhancement | CC: | 79045_79045, buzea.bogdan, heiko.tietze, mentoring |
| Priority: | lowest | Keywords: | difficultyBeginner, easyHack, skillDesign, topicUI |
| Version: | 7.1.5.2 release | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| Whiteboard: | target:7.6.0 | ||
| Crash report or crash signature: | Regression By: | ||
| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 85811 | ||
I think it was made advisedly Heiko, do you remember something related? "Show Whitespace" was introduced for bug 124686 but without contextual label. It would be the Label of <node oor:name=".uno:ShowWhitespace" oor:op="replace"> in officecfg/registry/data/org/openoffice/Office/UI/WriterCommands.xcu that needs to be changed and <prop oor:name="ContextLabel" oor:type="xs:string"> needs to be added with the "Show". It's similar to "Show Track Changes" (.uno:ShowTrackedChanges) where we have just "Show" under Edit > TC. Since the functionality is distributed over the menu I think keeping the lo0ng version makes sense. Bogdan B committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/3dbaeb2edffa7147fde02643f527c5d71465af37 tdf#143977 Consistent hide/show in Toolbars It will be available in 7.6.0. 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. |
Description: In the “View” menus, we have various items to be viewed or not: • Status bar • Formatting marks • Text boundaries And so on. Tick the box, and the canvas will show the item. Untick it and the canvas hides it. But at least two items depart from this convention. We have: • Show Whitespace • Show Tracked Changes To be consistent, these items should simply be: • Whitespace • Tracked Changes And to keep the present defaults, “Whitespace” should be ticked by default, “Tracked changes” unticked. This change will make the menus more consistent—and easier for the eye to scan. The same applies to toolbars. In the “Tabbed” and “Tabbed Compact” user interfaces, “Show Whitespace” should just be “Whitespace.” Steps to Reproduce: 1. Where available, click the "View" dropdown menu or 1. Switch to "Tabbed" or "Tabbed Compact" interface. 2. Click view. 3. See the toolbar. Actual Results: Displays: "Show Whitespace" and "Show Tracked Changes" Expected Results: Display: "Whitespace" and "Tracked Changes" Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: Yes Additional Info: Version: 7.1.5.2 / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 85f04e9f809797b8199d13c421bd8a2b025d52b5 CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 5.4; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US Flatpak Calc: threaded