Description:
In shape objects in Impress and Draw you can insert text. The "text" dialog box allows to specify the position of the text in the shape, as well other settings (e.g. if the text flows automatically inside the shape).
In 6.1.*.* any change of the text position inside the shape is ignored, the latter remaining always in the center. No workaround, apparently. Makes using shapes with text inside impossible.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open a new impress or Draw document. Draw a simple rectangle on the page. Give color background to the rectangle, so that it is simple to select and move it around.
2. Now with a double click on the rectangle the text cursor appears and you can insert some text; write some sentence, possibly long enough so that to fit into the shape it must wrap on multiple lines.
3. Now choose Format menu, Command "text". The appropriate dialog box appears, switch on the "text flows inside the shape" option (this is a translation from the Italian version, english original may vary slightly). The text is now psread on some lines so to fit inside the shape.
4. Recall the "text" dialog box again; on the right side you have a rectanlge with some handles that helps you move the text around the shape. For example, click on the upper left corner: the should now move from the center to the upper left of the shape. Instead, it remains in the center.
5. This happens cicking ANYWHERE, any corner or any point in the middle of the rectangle edges, no changes at all. 
6. When you reopen the dialog box, you can see your choice was ignored, and in the rectangle there the active point is always the center, no mater what you chose before.
7. Now create a text object by choosing the "insert text box" button (this is rectangular by default), and write the same text in it. In this case, the text is placed at the upper left corner of the rectangle.
8. open the "text" dialog box again, this time relative to the text box. The layout of the dialog is the same as before (a rectangle with the corners and middle edges clickable). The active point here is the upper left corner.
9. As before, any effort to change the active point for text placement is ignored. The only difference is the immutable starting point.

In all, work with presentations that go beyond the most basic instances is severely impaired. 
Alas again (as with bug https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118820) this can be reason enough to downgrade to 6.0, which DID NOT have this problem.
I sincerely cannot figure out how a second digit release can cause so much trouble in the correct application of simple formatting... I am now doing some testing on a 6.1.1.2 parallel install with some trepidation every time I an changing some object's settings....

Actual Results:
Text position in shapes and text boxes in Impress and Draw cannot be changed. the dialog box for this ignores the change the user tries to apply.

Expected Results:
Clicking to any corner or middle edge in the dialog box should allow to move text in the desired position. This happened until 6.0.6


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



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