Bug 111728 - Useless Arrow Style settings for shape objects
Summary: Useless Arrow Style settings for shape objects
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
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6.0.0.0.alpha0+
Hardware: All All
: low minor
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Blocks: Shapes Arrow_Style
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Reported: 2017-08-12 15:11 UTC by Tamás Zolnai
Modified: 2024-04-13 03:14 UTC (History)
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Description Tamás Zolnai 2017-08-12 15:11:25 UTC 
Description:
On the context menu of a shape there is an option for line settings which openes a dialog. For line shapes it makes sense to have arrow style settings, but for other kind of shapes (e.g. Rectangle) which does not handle such options has no reason to display these settings. 

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Writer
2. Create a rectangle shape
3. Open line settings (shape context menu -> Line ...)

Actual Results:  
On 'Line' tap page there is an Arrow Style are where user can set start and end arrow style. There is also an Arrow Styles tab page.

Expected Results:
No arrow related settings should be displayed in Line dialog for shapes where it has no meaning.


Reproducible: Always

User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.90 Safari/537.36
Comment 1 Regina Henschel 2017-08-12 22:48:24 UTC 
Please compare with bug 101254. I think, that it would be to expensive, if you examine the enhanced geometry of a custom shape to decide, whether the path is closed, only for to show or hide this setting. Therefore I suggest to have line ends always enabled.
Comment 2 Buovjaga 2017-08-30 12:51:24 UTC 
(In reply to Regina Henschel from comment #1)
> Please compare with bug 101254. I think, that it would be to expensive, if
> you examine the enhanced geometry of a custom shape to decide, whether the
> path is closed, only for to show or hide this setting. Therefore I suggest
> to have line ends always enabled.

Tamás: do you agree?
Comment 3 Tamás Zolnai 2017-08-30 12:59:25 UTC 
(In reply to Buovjaga from comment #2)
> (In reply to Regina Henschel from comment #1)
> > Please compare with bug 101254. I think, that it would be to expensive, if
> > you examine the enhanced geometry of a custom shape to decide, whether the
> > path is closed, only for to show or hide this setting. Therefore I suggest
> > to have line ends always enabled.
> 
> Tamás: do you agree?

I'm not sure we need actually examine the geometry for decide on allowing the arrow. I mean when you insert a rectangle shape you know that it is a closed geometry, so I guess for the preset shapes we might have additional clue about the type of the shape and decide based on that.

Additionally I see that this arrow styles settings are also available for textbox and image shapes, which are clearly have different shape type (not custom shapes), so there I'm sure we can disable these settings without a problem.
Comment 4 Buovjaga 2017-08-30 13:08:27 UTC 
Ok, let's set to NEW.
Comment 5 QA Administrators 2018-08-31 02:42:15 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 6 Regina Henschel 2018-09-02 16:28:40 UTC 
This is a valid request and there still exists no decision, whether to follow this request.
Comment 7 QA Administrators 2019-09-03 16:11:49 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 8 QA Administrators 2021-09-03 04:02:53 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 9 QA Administrators 2024-04-13 03:14:57 UTC 
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