Bug 152711

Summary:	Make Writer table styles _proper_ styles
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1>
Component:	Writer	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	jepe, kjambunathan, miguelangelrv, rgb.mldc, stephane.guillou, telesto, vsfoote
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
See Also:	https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89369 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151264 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34391 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138453 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101757 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105933 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157350 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159316 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101349 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107554
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Crash report or crash signature:		Regression By:
Bug Depends on:	49437
Bug Blocks:	101756, 107553, 108237

Description Eyal Rozenberg 2022-12-28 22:16:23 UTC

Writer table styles are not proper styles - and they should be.

How are they "not proper"? 

* They cannot be edited
* Changes to a Table Style design don't apply to tables already set to have that design (this is trivially true since they can't be changed)
* Aren't hierarchical (i.e. can't inherit other table styles)
* Don't have associated cell/drawing object styles - for different parts of the table which are style different, e.g. header and footer cells, start/end column, "body" cells.
* Can't get embedded in the document (if I am not mistaken)

Comment 1 m_a_riosv 2022-12-28 22:36:35 UTC

There are two META. Please search for a dup.

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101756
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107553

Comment 2 Eyal Rozenberg 2022-12-28 23:05:00 UTC

(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #0)
> Writer table styles are not proper styles - and they should be.
> 
> How are they "not proper"? 

Another aspect of impropriety: A table can have _no_ style (as opposed to the Default style). That's not the case for paragraphs, pages, etc. Instead, every table should have a style, even if it's implicitly the default style. i.e. the reverse of bug 138453.

Comment 3 Eyal Rozenberg 2022-12-28 23:09:48 UTC

(In reply to m.a.riosv from comment #1)
> There are two META. Please search for a dup.
> 
> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101756
> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107553

I re-checked, and have not found any duplicates of this bug. You can double-check, of course... and once you are satisfied it's not a duep, please consider confirming :-)

Comment 4 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2022-12-29 18:27:57 UTC

There is a relevant conversation around the work that recently made Table Designs editable in Impress/Draw: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/141825/4#message-60f3292076828cfc8544059b4c264b8cf1a2f22c

Comment 5 V Stuart Foote 2024-03-24 11:29:19 UTC

*** Bug 160074 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***