Bug 153990

Summary: Can't change object direction from sidebar if not in text-editing mode
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1>
Component: ImpressAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: normal CC: stephane.guillou
Priority: medium    
Version: 5.4.0.3 release   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Bug Blocks: 103470, 129661    

Description Eyal Rozenberg 2023-03-05 20:30:57 UTC 
Create a new presentation, and select one of the textboxes on the default first slide you get. Now have a look at the "Properties" sidebar, under the "Paragraph" category.

You'll notice that the alignment buttons - Left, Center, Right, Justify - are enabled; but the _direction_ buttons - LTR, RTL - are disabled. They should not be!

At the moment, you can only use them if you double-click the textbox, entering edit mode.

This is particularly problematic when you're selecting multiple objects, since you can never be in edit mode for more than one of them at a time!

Notes:

1. You _can_ change the direction using Format | Paragraph.
2. The disabled direction buttons don't show the current object's direction, i.e. none of them will be pressed outside of edit mode. Should I file this as a separate bug?
Comment 1 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-11-02 22:50:00 UTC 
*** Bug 157632 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Eyal Rozenberg 2023-11-03 00:03:03 UTC 
Sorry, Stephane, for duping my own bug :-(