Description:
Imagine you have a quite big table, that fills the whole page width. Now you want to enlarge the first column, and therefore need to make column 8 smaller.

So if you go to the table settings window and increase the size of the first column, you will experience, that for some inexplicable reason, column two gets scaled down…?! [Facepalm #1!] Well, I covered that in #113960. So you need to check “Adapt table width” every time you want to modify column widths. But you won’t be able to do that immediately, as you always have to first go to the “Table” tab and set “Alignment = center” – every time…?! [Facepalm #2!] Well… OK, let’s skip that. But still consider, that those required actions conceptually belong to this bug I’m currently describing!

Now you have set “Alignment = center” and checked “Adapt table width” and try to enlarge column one. You will see that this even now isn’t possible – instead you have to first reduce the size of another column for being able to increase another one. [Facepalm #3!]

This whole thing is very tedious, as the column width list in the “Columns” tab of the table settings is very ugly. There is a whole lot of unused space below the column width boxes – still, you have to “scroll” weirdly horizontally for being able to modify columns #(>6). [Facepalm #4!] And for also some inexplicable reason, we aren’t able to enlarge that settings window. [Facepalm #5!]

So we have to first scroll to column 8, scale that down and then scroll back to column 1 and THEN you’re able to scale that up. [Facepalm #6!]


Does that really need to be that complicated? I TOTALLY miss a concept for settings here.

One thing that would improve that ugly experience would be, to allow a table’s width to be larger than possible while residing in the settings window. You then just need to highlight that constraint mismatch (maybe via red font message) and grey out the OK button for changes not being able to take effect. Then we at least could adapt each column in ascending order, without having to reorder that process to “first make specific columns smaller, then make the rest larger”.

In total, please overhaul that process completely, is this really is kind of broken, devastating and daunting.

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Reproducible: Always


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