Bug 105933 - Means to modify existing table styles in a dialog
Summary: Means to modify existing table styles in a dialog
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
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5.4.0.0.alpha0+
Hardware: All All
: high enhancement
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: 116444 124019 134658 136200 141306 141402 147787 152408 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: Writer-Tables-Style
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Reported: 2017-02-11 10:33 UTC by Heiko Tietze
Modified: 2023-04-18 20:14 UTC (History)
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Description Heiko Tietze 2017-02-11 10:33:14 UTC
In bug 101648 the functions New and Modify have been disabled (actually both are hidden) but ultimately we need a dialog. The design team made a proposal which is published az https://design.blog.documentfoundation.org/2015/12/13/style-your-tables/
Comment 1 Jean-Baptiste Faure 2017-02-11 14:31:50 UTC
Confirming of course.

Best regards. JBF
Comment 2 Heiko Tietze 2017-03-04 21:00:13 UTC
As a workaround you can use the right-most tool button in the styles deck to either modify the selected table style or to create a new. However, those changes are stored only in the current document.
Comment 3 Thomas Lendo 2017-03-12 21:52:41 UTC
IMHO this bug should have a higher importance because table styles without the possibility to create or modify styles are useless in a large part. Also the table style feature was prominently promoted in the release notes.
Comment 4 Julien Nabet 2017-11-08 15:13:34 UTC
Yousuf: noticing https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=0ba318b895c164750dc3c7bac6948b04b606f2b8, thought you might be interested in this one.

Moreover, I agree with Thomas, we should increase the importance here for the reasons he quoted.
Comment 5 Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired) 2017-11-09 09:32:25 UTC
(In reply to Julien Nabet from comment #4)
> Yousuf: noticing
> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/
> ?id=0ba318b895c164750dc3c7bac6948b04b606f2b8, thought you might be
> interested in this one.

Julien: If only i was that good at coding, but i'm definitely not. :D

> Moreover, I agree with Thomas, we should increase the importance here for
> the reasons he quoted.

Creating and updating table styles is currently possible through the entries in the sidebar, so the part that is missing is the modification of a table style in a dialog, which will likely await a GSoC student to take up using the proposal in comment 0.
Comment 6 Julien Nabet 2017-11-09 09:38:45 UTC
(In reply to Yousuf Philips (jay) from comment #5)
> ...
> Julien: If only i was that good at coding, but i'm definitely not. :D
> 
No pb, I'm not expert too :-)

> ...
> Creating and updating table styles is currently possible through the entries
> in the sidebar, so the part that is missing is the modification of a table
> style in a dialog, which will likely await a GSoC student to take up using
> the proposal in comment 0.
Ouch! It may take some time since this bugtracker is only considered as an enhancement/medium.
Comment 7 Heiko Tietze 2017-11-09 09:57:55 UTC Comment hidden (no-value)
Comment 8 Buovjaga 2018-03-18 06:53:22 UTC
*** Bug 116444 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Heiko Tietze 2019-03-13 10:04:52 UTC
*** Bug 124019 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 Maxim Monastirsky 2020-07-08 15:14:58 UTC
*** Bug 134658 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11 maxloh.register 2020-07-09 14:02:18 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 12 Heiko Tietze 2021-04-08 13:36:56 UTC
*** Bug 141306 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 13 Eyal Rozenberg 2021-04-08 19:01:41 UTC
Heiko, has there been any progress with the 2015 proposal over the past few years? Is this prioritized for future work somehow? ... it seems mine is the 5th dupe.
Comment 14 Heiko Tietze 2021-04-09 07:29:50 UTC
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #13)
> Heiko, has there been any progress with the 2015 proposal over the past few
> years? Is this prioritized for future work somehow? ... it seems mine is the
> 5th dupe.

Until now we have no volunteer being interested in this task. Neither for the depending bug 49437. Let's raise the importance due to number of duplicates.
Comment 15 Dieter 2021-04-15 06:29:19 UTC
*** Bug 141402 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 16 Christian Lehmann 2021-04-16 07:06:49 UTC
Assuming that someone finds it ripe to be tackled at long last, here is a list of features that the user may wish to be uniform for the tables of a document:

Properties:
Table > Alignment.

Text flow > Allow table to split ...
[This is currently set in the Options. If it were possible in a table style, it would not be needed in the options.]

Borders > All features.

Background > Color for the whole table.

Moreover, there are some features not included in the "Properties" that the user may wish to hold for every table in the document:
Character > Font, size
Paragraph > Alignment

Size > Optimal column width [applied dynamically after every change]
Number recognition
Comment 17 Heiko Tietze 2021-04-20 07:20:05 UTC
*** Bug 136200 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 18 Dieter 2022-01-04 08:46:28 UTC
Is it perhaps a project for GSoC?
Comment 19 Heiko Tietze 2022-01-04 08:57:44 UTC
Table Styles were introduced in a GSoC project. So yes, could be a (quite easy) task.
Comment 20 Telesto 2022-03-06 02:41:13 UTC
*** Bug 147787 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 21 Dieter 2022-12-20 17:30:31 UTC
*** Bug 152408 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 22 Adalbert Hanßen 2023-04-18 19:32:58 UTC
(In reply to Dieter from comment #21)
> *** Bug 152408 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

in https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152408#c0 I gave another example and came to the conclusion »It looks like templates for tables being almost 100% non-functional.«
Comment 23 Eyal Rozenberg 2023-04-18 20:14:04 UTC
(In reply to Adalbert Hanßen from comment #22)
> in https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152408#c0 I gave
> another example and came to the conclusion »It looks like templates for
> tables being almost 100% non-functional.«

Considering the lack of progress on this, perhaps more people would consider supporting the idea of aiming for having _actual_ table styles rather than just templates (as suggested in bug 152711).