Bug 121018 - UI: Remove "..." (ellipses) in sub-menu items of the text context menu or make it a real command
Summary: UI: Remove "..." (ellipses) in sub-menu items of the text context menu or mak...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
6.2.0.0.alpha1+
Hardware: All All
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Assignee: Not Assigned
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Whiteboard: target:6.2.0
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Blocks: Context-Menu
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Reported: 2018-10-29 12:29 UTC by Thomas Lendo
Modified: 2018-11-08 08:18 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Screenshot of text context menu, LibO 6.2.0.0.alpha1+ 2018-10-29 (27.24 KB, image/jpeg)
2018-10-29 12:29 UTC, Thomas Lendo
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Description Thomas Lendo 2018-10-29 12:29:11 UTC
Created attachment 146132 [details]
Screenshot of text context menu, LibO 6.2.0.0.alpha1+ 2018-10-29

The sub-menu items of the text context menu in Writer 6.2.0.0.alpha1+ from 2018-10-29 have "..." (ellipses) that symbolize that a new dialog opens or more user action is needed (BTW note to Heiko: I like these ellipses! :-)

But the sub-menu items only open sub-menus of the context menu and no further dialog. Therefore the ellipses must be removed here.


Or--and this is what I would love to see--make the sub-menu items real commands as they look identical to the first item in the sub-menus for characters and paragraphs.

This would shorten the time for the user to open the Character or Paragraph dialog.

The rules for such new(?) behavior in LibreOffice can be:
- The  combined context menu item/sub-menu item must be looks like the single context menu item.
- The first item of the sub-menu must be identical to the combined item.
- This combinated item can be used on a case-by-case basis and carefully. It wont work with all sub-menus.
Comment 1 Maxim Monastirsky 2018-10-29 12:44:20 UTC
> But the sub-menu items only open sub-menus of the context menu and no
> further dialog. Therefore the ellipses must be removed here.
Yes, it will be removed after the labels will be splitted, see my comments in https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/62242/.

> Or--and this is what I would love to see--make the sub-menu items real
> commands as they look identical to the first item in the sub-menus for
> characters and paragraphs.
Technically impossible (as long as we use native menus), similar to Bug 84177.
Comment 2 Thomas Lendo 2018-10-29 13:54:53 UTC
Thanks, Maxim.

Then I set this bug to status RESOLVED FIXED with reference to your gerrit link and I forget the "real command" idea.
Comment 3 Commit Notification 2018-11-08 07:59:23 UTC
Maxim Monastirsky committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/632e11d19604045e2ea9518f25dc67bf5d2695bb%5E%21

tdf#121018 Split labels for sub menus

It will be available in 6.2.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 4 andreas_k 2018-11-08 08:18:13 UTC
thanks a lot Maxim it was on my todo list, but you fixed it. mercy