Bug 137138

Summary: Sidebar -> Table Styles should show a preview as in Impress
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Telesto <telesto>
Component: WriterAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: enhancement CC: buzea.bogdan, heiko.tietze, kainz.a, stephane.guillou, thomas.lendo
Priority: medium    
Version: 6.3.6.2 release   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
See Also: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101802
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Crash report or crash signature: Regression By:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 103407, 103427, 107553    
Attachments: Table Style Preview

Description Telesto 2020-09-29 19:10:10 UTC
Description:
UI: Sidebar -> Table styles should show preview like insert table dialog

Steps to Reproduce:
UI: Sidebar -> Table styles should show preview like insert table dialog

Actual Results:
No table style preview

Expected Results:
A preview.. 
Borrowed from Impress. 
Or mouse over popup with a preview.. 
Picture next to it.. 


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
Version: 7.1.0.0.alpha0+ (x64)
Build ID: dec9a123867dcd0fea4683beeb3b4b6659f926f3
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 6.3 Build 9600; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: nl-NL (nl_NL); UI: en-US
Calc: CL
Comment 1 BogdanB 2020-09-30 06:59:44 UTC
Confirmed. 
Would be nice to have preview.

Version: 7.0.1.2 (x64)
Build ID: 7cbcfc562f6eb6708b5ff7d7397325de9e764452
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19041; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: ro-RO (ro_RO); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 2 Heiko Tietze 2020-09-30 08:54:53 UTC
Yes, would be nice to have the same preview as in Impress.
Comment 3 andreas_k 2020-10-19 09:04:50 UTC
Created attachment 166499 [details]
Table Style Preview

As previews for tables need more space, what if we have an preview at the bottom of the Styles sidebar? there you can show the previews which are already available in the dialog.

Problem, when you select a style you see the preview, but the style of the tabel change also.
Comment 4 Thomas Lendo 2020-10-19 14:52:41 UTC
(In reply to andreas_k from comment #3)
> As previews for tables need more space, what if we have an preview at the
> bottom of the Styles sidebar? there you can show the previews which are
> already available in the dialog.
Good idea. I think at the bottom is the best place. How is it visually separated from the styles list?
> Problem, when you select a style you see the preview, but the style of the
> tabel change also.
One click: preview is shown but style is not assigned to table.
Double-click: preview is shown and style is assigned to table.
I see no problem here?
Comment 5 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2022-11-24 12:36:09 UTC
There is definitely space for improvement in the consistency between Writer and Impress, including where things are located and how they are named.

- In Writer, the styles are called "AutoFormat Styles" in the toolbar and dialog, but just (Table) Styles in the Styles sidebar.
- Impress has them in the section "Table Design" of the "Properties" sidebar.

It makes it difficult to locate things when going from one component to the other. But I guess that's a slightly different problem.

To stick to the topic: table style previews are still not available in Writer's styles sidebar in LO 7.5, even though there is a "Show previews" setting underneath. I like the solution by Andreas in comment 3.

Not sure when table styles were introduced, but no preview since at least LO 6.3.

Version: 6.3.6.2
Build ID: 2196df99b074d8a661f4036fca8fa0cbfa33a497
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; 
Locale: de-DE (en_AU.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded

Version: 7.5.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: c130063895c7a733ad121db1bf5fbceac38f6ad5
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 6 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2022-11-24 16:52:40 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 44525 ***