Bug 160858

Summary:	Add "Apply" button to all tabs of Table Properties dialog
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	John.m.astell
Component:	Writer	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	libreoffice-ux-advise, stephane.guillou
Priority:	medium	Keywords:	needsUXEval
Version:	Inherited From OOo
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Crash report or crash signature:		Regression By:
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Bug Blocks:	113088

Description John.m.astell 2024-04-29 12:42:54 UTC

Description:
Using the Table Properties dialog to format a table is often a multistep process when users need to see incremental changes. Current behavior of Table Properties dialog requires use to press OK to see a change, then reopen the dialog and repeat process until al changes are made.

Adding an "Apply" button to each tab in the dialog would considerably speed up this situation. "Apply" would apply the changes made without closing the dialog, like it works elsewhere in various LO Writer dialogs.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a table
2. Open Table Properties to format table
3. Make a change. To see the change and continue editing table, user must press OK and reopen dialog.

Actual Results:
Enhancement request.

Expected Results:
Enhancement request.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
Enhancement request.

Comment 1 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2024-05-14 14:05:56 UTC

Thanks for the suggestion.
The sidebar and the toolbar should already offer most of the necessary functions, applied directly, but I understand the appeal.

UX/Design team, what do you think?

Comment 2 Heiko Tietze 2024-05-15 08:56:47 UTC

The Apply function would be added next to Reset on the bottom bar. Like it is implemented for the Format > Page Style dialog.

Comment 3 Heiko Tietze 2024-05-31 07:58:34 UTC

We discussed the topic in the design meeting. Consistency is prime, and Apply is available on styles only but not for direct formatting (eg Paragraph/Character properties). Plus, the table properties dialog offers not so many attributes that it requires iterative adjustments. Issues are rather caused by a clumsy layout that needs to be improved. And we have some tickets on this topic.