Index: backgrounds;inserting from Gallery gives you the page /text/shared/guide/gallery_insert.xhp Title: Inserting Objects From the Gallery That page needs an update. Gallery was integrated in the Sidebar long time ago and the symbol was removed from the default settings of the Standard toolbar. The described way to link an image from the Gallery has been removed by purpose. Insert as background of an object does not work as described. The item Gallery has been moved from the menu Tools to the menu View.
Hi Regina, I was testing the instructions in the help page you mentioned and none of them work. I'll give more details for each section: In "Inserting an object as a copy" it is possible to fix the instructions because inserting objects still works in all LO applications. In "Inserting an object as a link" it looks like it is no longer possible to insert objects as links, so this section should be removed. In "Inserting an object as a background graphic" the options "Insert - Background - Page or Paragraph" are only available in Writer. However, based on my testing they don't seem to be working. In "Inserting an object as a texture (pattern) for another object" the instructions did not work at all. Has this feature been removed? In short, it seems that from the 4 use cases, only the first still works. Could you confirm if this is indeed the case? As for inserting objects as links I found this page saying that holding Ctrl + Shift and dragging the object into the document inserts it as a link (this worked in my tests): https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/shared/guide/dragdrop_fromgallery.html
(In reply to Rafael Lima from comment #1) > Hi Regina, I was testing the instructions in the help page you mentioned and > none of them work. I'll give more details for each section: [.. > In short, it seems that from the 4 use cases, only the first still works. > Could you confirm if this is indeed the case? Yes, that's why I have written the bugreport. > > As for inserting objects as links I found this page saying that holding Ctrl > + Shift and dragging the object into the document inserts it as a link (this > worked in my tests): > https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/shared/guide/ > dragdrop_fromgallery.html But the first kind of that page does not work. Simple dragging is not possible. You get always a "copy" (with "copy" I mean, that the mouse cursor gets a + ) when dragging without pressing any modifier key.
(In reply to Regina Henschel from comment #0) > The described way to link an image from the Gallery has been removed by > purpose. I guess commit 4e3f7d32b80fcb44f20abe634a2035d2c90c9e08 for bug 67274, so since LO 4.2. > Insert as background of an object does not work as described. I haven't been able to find a version that allows me to do that, at least on Linux. Has this ever worked?
(In reply to Stéphane Guillou (stragu) from comment #3) > > Insert as background of an object does not work as described. > I haven't been able to find a version that allows me to do that, at least on > Linux. Has this ever worked? It works in Apache OpenOffice 4.1., but it seems it was not implemented in LibreOffice. Neither version 3.5 nor 4.4 has it.
(In reply to Rafael Lima from comment #1) > In "Inserting an object as a background graphic" the options "Insert - > Background - Page or Paragraph" are only available in Writer. However, based > on my testing they don't seem to be working. This is working for me in Writer in - Version: 24.2.1.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: db4def46b0453cc22e2d0305797cf981b68ef5ac CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.8; UI render: default; VCL: kf5 (cairo+xcb) Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: CL threaded - but only for some themes or possibly some types of object.
It looks like there are several help pages giving contradictory information about inserting objects from the Gallery. I'm going to try to merge or update them as appropriate.
Dione Maddern committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/help/commit/6d4d158dee9ef0d47e25b756df24150c7de42773 tdf#107081 Update instructions for inserting objects from the Gallery