Bug 92044

Summary: UI: Text box is blanked out with grey square
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Michael <mdunphy>
Component: UIAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: stgohi-lobugs
Priority: medium    
Version: 5.1.0.0.alpha0+ Master   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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Attachments: Blanked out description text box
expected description box, as present in LO 4.3.7.2

Description Michael 2015-06-13 08:46:10 UTC 
Created attachment 116494 [details]
Blanked out description text box

When I open Tools->Customize in Writer, the textbox for "Description" is just a grey square and doesn't print any text. See attached screenshot.

This greyed out box problem was present in the report for bug 91301, but it persists following the fix for 91301, so it appears to be a separate issue.
Comment 1 A (Andy) 2015-06-13 09:30:30 UTC 
That's right.  I tested it for a lot of toolbar commands (under LO 4.4.3.2, Win 8.1) and it was always grey and empty.  Unfortunately, there is also no LO help available for this dialog, but as far as I understand or suppose, this is a field for a short description for the commands?  I think this would a good idea and feature, but unfortunately it seems not to have been used in the past or at least for many commands?  Or is it maybe a bug?  But if my understanding is right, I would like to keep it and then it would be good if there would descriptions added in the future.  Therefore, if I am right, I would not mark it as a bug, maybe only as an enhancement request.
@all: Please correct if my understanding and assumption is wrong.
Comment 2 Michael 2015-06-13 09:40:18 UTC 
@Andy: Quite sure it's a regression, the descriptions are present in 4.3 (will add another attachment)

Version: 4.3.7.2
Build ID: 4.3.7.2-6.fc21
Comment 3 Michael 2015-06-13 09:40:48 UTC 
Created attachment 116495 [details]
expected description box, as present in LO 4.3.7.2
Comment 4 A (Andy) 2015-06-13 11:18:37 UTC 
(In reply to Michael from comment #2)
> @Andy: Quite sure it's a regression, the descriptions are present in 4.3
> (will add another attachment)
> 
> Version: 4.3.7.2
> Build ID: 4.3.7.2-6.fc21

Thanks for your fast reply.  In this case it is really a bug.  I did not focus on this in the past.
Comment 5 Maxim Monastirsky 2015-09-29 20:30:51 UTC 
It depends on the offline help package, works for me in 5.0.2 after installing it.
Comment 6 Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 2015-10-02 10:15:59 UTC 
Those descriptions correspond to “extended tooltips”, which live in helpcontent2. We’re planning to extract those from the Help eventually.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 61210 ***
Comment 7 Michael 2015-10-02 11:01:08 UTC 
How about putting in default placeholder text saying "please install helpcontent2" such that it's obvious why the tips are missing?