Description:
Suppose that you have multiple objects and that you group them into a single object.

That resulting object should get an initial rotation angle at 0 (as shown by going in the "position and size" dialog and selecting the "rotation" pane. This is important to then allow the group-object to be accurately rotated at will in case there is need to do so.

However, the grouping action in LibO results in the newly creating group object having an initial angle different from zero (and probably equal to the rotating angle of one of the objects put in the group).

This unnecessarily complicates working with the group object (also because it is by no means clear what initial object it will inherit its initial angle from).

For instance, consider the example in the attached file, where there are 3 objects (two circles and a line) making up the symbol of a switch. If you group the objects you get a switch symbol as a single object, but this immediately appears to have a 30° rotation angle even if the switch is horizontal! In fact, the compound object seems to take its initial rotation angle with the line object. This makes it unnecessarily complex to use the newly generated symbol (e.g. to rotate it to be vertical). In the proposed example things are really not to bad, because 30 is a round number. Yet if it was 29.7 making the compound object perfectly vertical, could be a bit hard. Furthermore, things get really weird when you put objects on the gallery. You may then end up picking something in the gallery, seeing it "horizontal" or "vertical" and then find out that for LibO it is neither.

I think that LibO should "reset" the initial rotation angle when creating a group object.

I believe that this bug is inherited from OO but cannot really check.

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Actual Results:
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Reproducible: Always


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OS: Linux (All)
OS is 64bit: yes