Bug 104172

Summary:	enable "custom color..." in the Writer table cell background color picker
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	madmalkav <hamletpod>
Component:	Writer	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	barta, cno, hamletpod, philipz85
Priority:	medium	Keywords:	needsUXEval
Version:	Inherited From OOo
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Crash report or crash signature:		Regression By:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	94722, 107707, 94551
Attachments:	Background Color, no custom selection Border Color, with custom selection

Description madmalkav 2016-11-25 19:45:22 UTC

Description:
Custom color can be selected OK i.e. for the borders, but it is not available for cell background. If you modify the cell background color in the XML file it displays OK on the document.

Steps to Reproduce:
Try to change table cell background color.

Actual Results:  
Only a limited number of colors available: no option for custom colors.

Expected Results:
Being able to set custom colors as background for table cells.


Reproducible: Always

User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2840.99 Safari/537.36

Comment 1 tommy27 2016-11-26 05:24:45 UTC

True. You have a "custom color" option in the color picker when you edit cell background in a Calc spreadsheet but you just have a default palette when you want to change the cell background in a Writer table.

This is a missing option since OOo era.
Let's see if some developer or UX-team member may be interested porting the Calc "custom color" option into Writer.

@Jay
do you know if this enhancement has already been asked before?
If I remember correctly you worked with the color picker new dialog in the past.

Comment 2 Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired) 2016-11-28 22:54:28 UTC

The new area fill single tab is intended to replace the content of the background tab in the table dialog.

Comment 3 Heiko Tietze 2016-12-18 09:44:17 UTC

Fixed in 5.3.

Comment 4 madmalkav 2016-12-18 11:47:31 UTC

Created attachment 129743 [details]
Background Color, no custom selection

Comment 5 madmalkav 2016-12-18 11:48:29 UTC

Created attachment 129744 [details]
Border Color, with custom selection

Comment 6 madmalkav 2016-12-18 11:49:25 UTC

Testes in Windows with 5.3 Beta 2 and 5.4 daily and seems like nothing changed to me. Added screenshots to show what I'm refering to.

Comment 7 Katarina Behrens (Inactive) 2016-12-21 15:20:08 UTC

The background tabpage from comment 4 is not the same as area tabpage (cui/source/tabpages/backgrnd.cxx vs. cui/source/tabpages/tparea.cxx)

The former is used when other than solid colour fill for the given object isn't implemented on the drawing layer level yet (thus, it ain't really possible to use the grand unified area tabpage in that place)

Comment 8 Heiko Tietze 2017-03-09 13:20:48 UTC

Lets collect the issues for missing palettes or access to a different area style in bug 105225.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 105225 ***

Comment 9 Cor Nouws 2017-06-19 13:30:31 UTC

(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #8)
> Lets collect the issues for missing palettes or access to a different area
> style in bug 105225.
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 105225 ***

OK, but reading bug 105225, you'll definitely miss this issue.
So either there is a fill written out list in 105225, or a meta-issue where others (such as this one) are linked?