Description: In Draw in the sidebar in the line-properties section the line width is displayed in points although in options -> LO Draw -> General the unit of measurement is set to centimeters. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open an new draw file. 2. Draw a line. 3. Try to change the line width with the sidebar. 4. Measures are in points not in centimeters. Actual Results: line width shown in points although in the options the unit of measurement ist set to centimeters Expected Results: sidebar properties should show the units according to the properties made in options Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0
Created attachment 130241 [details] sidebar linebar properties line width
Confirmed. I guess it can be called implementationError as it's a new thing in Sidebar. Arch Linux 64-bit, KDE Plasma 5 Version: 5.4.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: 57779b5f3a49fedd952aed70ddcce22f48b98ea5 CPU Threads: 8; OS Version: Linux 4.8; UI Render: default; VCL: kde4; Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI.UTF-8); Calc: group Built on January 13th 2016
There are a few other places through the sidebar where the measurements arent the same as the user set measurement unit, like the margin and spacing drop down lists in the page deck. Having the unit part calculated for every possible measurement unit that a user can select isnt a really good option in my view. @UX: Any input?
(In reply to Yousuf Philips (jay) from comment #3) > There are a few other places through the sidebar where the measurements > arent the same as the user set measurement unit, like the margin and spacing > drop down lists in the page deck. Having the unit part calculated for every > possible measurement unit that a user can select isnt a really good option > in my view. @UX: Any input? Unifying the units is on out the todo list. In bug 72662 it's argued why units have to be different and in bug 44267 a more precise input including conversion feature is requested.
So lets make this bug fix the main issue from the bug description, as i'm for that. Probably we could change the labels from exact point values to size values like extra thin, thin, small, medium, large, extra large. But the custom line width field would most definitely need to be fixed. From an a11y perspective, opening and selecting a value in the popup causes focus to go to an unknown location in the sidebar and i cant tab to the next field and only alt+tab twice gets the control focus again, so i would be in favour of replacing the control is a standard drop down list. @Alex, @Brandon, @Stuart: What's is your take on this?
Problem still present in 6.0.0.3. There are some more places where differnt units of measurement are used: i.e. in the table properties dialog in writer (see attached screenshot). I think it's confusing for users to work with different units.
Created attachment 139574 [details] Writer table properties dialog
*** Bug 115266 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The natural unit for line width is point. This is the accepted, natural unit across multiple applications and fields. The current sidebar behavior is correct. The bug here is the inconsistency, which would be resolved by fixing bug 72662 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 72662 ***
(In reply to Luke from comment #9) > The natural unit for line width is point. At least we face a (minor) inconsistency with an option that is not applied correctly. Or do you have a good use case to change pt into cm, mr. bordfeldt?
Hello Heiko, now I see a little bit clearer. I think font height, table borders, line width and so on should be in points. The measurements of graphical objects like images, rectangles and so on should be in the localised measurement unit, i.e. cm in german. The problem for me are still the inconsistencies i.e. table borders in points, line width in cm. See attached screenshot. There are two further problems with the line properties in cm: 1. The default line width is 0,0 cm. The line should be invisible, but is visible. So the default line width should be i.e. 0,05 cm. The next problem resulting out of this, that the line is visible on the monitor but invisible on paper, after printing the document. 2. The default step to increase the line width is 0,1 cm which is to big. Is there a possibility to set this step in options? Perhaps these problems are solved by changing the unit to points.
Created attachment 149805 [details] Line porperties - line width in cm and not in points
0,00 cm. is the precision issue. Two decimal places is not enough precision to represent line width in inches or cm. See Bug 44267 This among other reasons is why every other Office Suite uses points for line width, line spacing, and font size. See bug 72662 for a further discussion on changing the unit for these types.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 134448 ***