Bug 126872 - Textbox: Cannot change "Line color" or "Fill color" through toolbar buttons
Summary: Textbox: Cannot change "Line color" or "Fill color" through toolbar buttons
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Impress (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
6.4.0.0.alpha1+
Hardware: All All
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Reported: 2019-08-13 07:42 UTC by DarkTrick
Modified: 2019-10-31 06:58 UTC (History)
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Description DarkTrick 2019-08-13 07:42:39 UTC 
Description:
It's not possible to change "Line color" or "Fill color" of a textbox using the toolbar buttons without previously setting it up inside the "Properties" page on the right side.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add new text box ( shortcut: F2 ).
2. Write some text.
3. Find the toolbar buttons to change "Line color" or "Fill color".
4. Press them.

Actual Results:
5. Nothing happens.

Expected Results:
5. Text box gets surrounded by a line / changes it's background color.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes



Additional Info:

This might be an enhancement request.

It's counterintuitive, that the available buttons have no impact on the object.
Comment 1 Durgapriyanka 2019-08-30 20:06:28 UTC 
Thank you for reporting the bug. I can reproduce this bug in 

LibreOffice 3.3.0 
OOO330m19 (Build:6)
tag libreoffice-3.3.0.4

But not in 

Version: 6.3.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: b6b28931435e44aca92b8c0e1659f701e3ed1a87
CPU threads: 2; OS: Windows 6.1; UI render: default; VCL: win; 
TinderBox: Win-x86@42, Branch:master, Time: 2019-01-30_06:57:04
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 2 Gerhard Weydt 2019-10-30 22:57:29 UTC 
I think this is the normal behaviour, it's the same in Writer and Calc (and Draw, but that's no surprise).
The reason is that there is a second attribute for both the filling and the line, namely Line style and Area style/Filling, which are set to "- none -" and "None", respectively, in the case of a text field. You must set these to "continuous" (for example) and "Color", to be able to see the line and fill color you set. Do it before you set the color!
Unfortunately, the line and filling toolbar seems not to be active automatically for Impress, otherwise you would have noticed that. Instead of activating this toolbar, you can also use the context menu, or Format -> Object and shape, where you can also set these attributes via the menu entries Line and Area.
So the problem boils down to a possible request that the two symbols in the Drawing toolbar should be inactive if the second attributes named above have these none attributes.
I propose that you set the status to RESOLVED and WORKSFORME or NOTABUG, and file a new bug with importance "enhancement" for the suggested request, if you think it worthwhile.
Comment 3 DarkTrick 2019-10-31 06:57:36 UTC 
I created an enhancement request for this behavior.