Bug 73069

Summary: UI: Combo boxes don't look native
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Tin Man <newsletters>
Component: UIAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: enhancement CC: barta, kendy, thomas.lendo
Priority: medium    
Version: Inherited From OOo   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
See Also: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73068
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113733
Whiteboard: BSA
Crash report or crash signature: Regression By:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 120172    
Attachments: Proposal explained on Gnome combo boxes

Description Tin Man 2013-12-27 14:04:13 UTC 
Created attachment 91226 [details]
Proposal explained on Gnome combo boxes

Currently, the drop-down arrows in combo boxes appear as separate buttons. 
On Windows [1] and with some Linux themes, combo box arrows appear within the text field, not separated or barely separated from the rest of the text entry part of the field.

My proposal would be to show the dropdown button inside the text entry field with no surrounding borders by default, unless specified differently for the platform. This would work well along with https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=73068, which would broaden the target area for opening dropdown and therefore eliminate the need for a clearly delineated dropdown button.

[1] Windows combo boxes: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb775791%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
Operating System: All
Version: 4.1.4.2 release
Comment 1 tommy27 2013-12-28 22:16:24 UTC 
UI enhancement request. set status to NEW.
combo boxes always looked like that from OOo-era (changing version field).
I add UI expert to CC list to hear his opinion.
Comment 2 Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 2014-02-13 05:20:45 UTC 
How will this interact with other GTK+ themes? Do we want to vanish the ▾ button in all of them? Because the current ugly look is an Adwaita-specific bug.
Comment 3 Thomas Lendo 2019-08-29 08:19:00 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)