Bug 100644 - change the behavior of changing line thickness with "format cells"
Summary: change the behavior of changing line thickness with "format cells"
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
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Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
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Blocks: Cell-Border
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Reported: 2016-06-27 17:56 UTC by Roeland
Modified: 2018-06-14 13:31 UTC (History)
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Description Roeland 2016-06-27 17:56:40 UTC
The border menu behind format cells is behaving a bit oddly:
Steps to reproduce:

1: Select some cells in calc
2: rightclick on your selection and click on "format cells"
3: navigate to the "borders" menu
4: pick line arrangement and select "outer borders only"; this creates some lines at "user defined", change the thickness of those lines to 2 pt
5: now click on the middle of "userd defined" to create some inner lines
6: change the thickness of the inner lines to 1 pt
7: if you now select one of the outer border lines, the thickness of those lines is automaticly adjjusted to one

Expected behavior: when selecting one of the lines, the thickness is the one that was chosen for that line before
Comment 1 Cor Nouws 2016-06-28 07:31:25 UTC
Hi Roeland,

thanks for writing here.

(In reply to Roeland from comment #0)

> Expected behavior: when selecting one of the lines, the thickness is the one
> that was chosen for that line before

Question: why would you/someone click the position of a line that is already set?

Ciao - Cor
Comment 2 Roeland 2016-06-28 18:07:55 UTC
Hi Cor, in short: for maximum flexibility and usability.

For example:

If I change my mind about thickness and want to change something while this dialog is still open.

If I made a mistake and want to correct this.

If I simply want to know which line thickness I chose before.
Comment 3 Cor Nouws 2016-06-28 19:15:43 UTC
Thanks Roeland for your explanation!
I expect there are more use cases, including other attributes..

So UXEval.

Maybe it's good for people to comment to play around with various scenarios.
Of course this beside explaining your own favorite work-flow ;)
Comment 4 Heiko Tietze 2018-06-14 13:31:07 UTC
I think this behavior is expected. What you define in the middle is taken for the next operation.