Bug 154394

Summary:	Can not select multiple check box in single shot for Formatting Text
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	muthu <muthu1809>
Component:	Writer	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTABUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	libreoffice-ux-advise, miguelangelrv, stephane.guillou
Priority:	medium	Keywords:	needsUXEval
Version:	7.3.7.2 release
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description muthu 2023-03-25 16:57:02 UTC

Description:
Format -> Text -> has number of check boxes but cannot select all in single attempt. For every change, Need to go to menu every time. 

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open LibreOffice Writer
2. Type any text. Eg. insert
3. Now, if One wants to format this word, it can be done through Format -> Text.  [Bold, Itatic, Single Underline, etc]. 
4. But, we need to go to Format -> Text for every single format. After selecting Bold, menu disappears.  We need to again go to Format -> Text. 
5. If I want to select Bold, Italic, Single Underline, Superscript, Shadow formats in single attempt, as of now I cannot do that.  I need to go to Format -> Text for every format. This needs to changed.

Actual Results:
If I want to select Bold, Italic, Single Underline, Superscript, Shadow formats in single attempt, as of now I cannot do that. 

Expected Results:
If I want to select Bold, Italic, Single Underline, Superscript, Shadow formats in single attempt, as of now I cannot do that.  I need to go to Format -> Text for every format. This needs to changed. 



Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:

Version: 7.3.7.2 / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 30(Build:2)
CPU threads: 12; OS: Linux 5.19; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-IN (en_IN); UI: en-US
Ubuntu package version: 1:7.3.7-0ubuntu0.22.04.2
Calc: threaded

Comment 1 m_a_riosv 2023-03-26 03:05:43 UTC

With Menu/format/Character you should be able to do it, across the tabs.

Comment 2 M Ragul 2023-03-29 10:52:35 UTC

with Menu/format/character-> i can't set the font style shadow method text

Comment 3 Senthilkumar 2023-03-29 11:28:30 UTC

I am also facing this issue. I can't able to do the multiple text format in the single click.

Actual: I want to select multiple text format in single click. But, the text format popup will not wait for selecting multiple text format (BOLD,ITALIC,SINGLE UNDERLINE,SHADOW). It will closed while i am selecting one text format.It is not waiting for selecting another one.

Expected: I want to select multiple text format in single click (BOLD,ITALIC,SINGLE UNDERLINE,SHADOW) The text format popup window will wait for selecting multiple text format.

Comment 4 m_a_riosv 2023-03-29 13:33:09 UTC

You can set up with
Menu/format/character->
On the tab 'Font' - 'Style', Bold/Italic or both.
On the tab 'Font Effects',
 'Text decoration' - Underlining.
 'Effects' - Shadow.

Comment 5 Senthilkumar 2023-03-30 07:53:16 UTC

Thank you for your response sir,

Checkbox selection is there on the text format popup. Then in that case it will wait for the multiple text in single click means only its a proof of correctness.

Actual: It will closed while i am selecting one text format.It is not waiting for selecting another one.

Expected: The text format popup window showing (checkbox selection) my expectation is multiple checkbox selection in single click.

Comment 6 Sophie Sipasseuth 2023-03-30 08:16:11 UTC

Effectively, when I change the format of the text via the menu Format>Text, the menu disappears after one choice.

However, I can do my multiple choice of text format via the options bar on the top of the screen.

For me, this bug is an ergonomy question of the Text menu. Why the user cannot make a multiple choice via the Text menu?

Version: 7.6.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 4daeb21a5f533144fd6b3bc397a98f37e5b1dd4c
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19045; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: fr-FR (fr_FR); UI: fr-FR
Calc: CL threaded

Comment 7 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-03-30 15:14:04 UTC

The icons in the top menu are used to indicate that something is on, they are not actual tick boxes like in a dialog.

The design of the top menu is that clicking one element executes an action, and then closes. I don't see this changing any time soon, the behaviour is standard and I can't think of other apps in which the menu remains open after having clicked on an option. (Can you think of one?)

Alternatives to using the menu repeatedly:
- toolbar, which you can customise
- Character dialog (accessed through top menu or context menu)
- If you often need to apply the same set of direct formatting options, you should create a character style that has them all

I believe these are sufficient. Agreeing with Miguel Angel in closing as "won't fix".
(Maybe better icons could be used if they look like actual tickboxes, but I think that comes from your desktop environment, not LO. Mine look like this on GNOME: ✓)

The UX team can weigh in.

Comment 8 Heiko Tietze 2023-04-04 07:27:56 UTC

If you keep the menu open for multiple selections consider the situation where you want to run a single action with a popup menu (whether main menu or the context menu) and you need to click somewhere to close the menu.

It's standard behavior and very reasonable. The alternatives are clear (not to mention keyboard shortcuts) and the recommendation to use character styles.

=> NAB/WF