Description: In Libreoffice Calc pushing More... in language selection in Status bar leads to Language settings from Tools > Options menu instead of Format > Cells menu as should be (e.g. it works in Writer). Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open or create Calc file 2. In Status bar push on Language selection 3. Push More... Actual Results: Language settings from Tools > Options appears to select interface language. Expected Results: Cell properties from Format > Cells > Font should appear to select language of text in selected cells. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: Version: 6.3.2.2 Build ID: 98b30e735bda24bc04ab42594c85f7fd8be07b9c CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; Locale: lv-LV (en_GB.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US The same appears in Version 6.2.7.1
The current behaviour was implemented in https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=6db709ba79fec6f75dd7385ce57c65a62fc2254e @UX Team, what's your opinion on this ??
Looks like cell language is not the same as text language since I can set both independently. Eike, could you please add some wisdom here?
The font language is a text attribute and affects spell-checking and the like. The number format language (locale) affects only the number format. The status bar setting the global document language (like choosing "[None]") or More... raising the Tools -> Options -> Language Settings -> Languages dialog IMHO is completely wrong. Changing "Default Languages for Documents" there leads to setting all cells' default font language (if not set differently already). Changing "Language Of","Locale setting" there leads to setting all cells' default number format locale (if not set differently already). The status bar language displays the global Western "Default Languages for Documents", also when changed it's updated only after some other action. However, according to the tooltip ("Text Language. ... character or paragraph language") picking a language from the context menu should attribute the font language of the selected cell(s), and More... should raise the Format -> Cells (Ctrl+1) dialog with tab Font.
I support a change so that it opens Format > Cells dialog in font tab similar to the behavior in Writer. It seems in general that the language identification needs some love in Calc like Bug 76750, Bug 34142, Bug 63558 and Bug 121700.
It looks as if my friend @hcastro missed the difference when making the [more] button work. Changing the behavior to be in line with Writer is, esp after previous comments, a nobrainer to me :)
Hi, >> Changing the behavior to be in line with Writer is, esp after previous comments Yes, I did with Online to send same data on uno:Commands but it is not. I will fix the desktop version, without affecting the Online :)
I was looking for the explanation in bug 100136 and arrived here. Now with Eike's explanation, I get it. But we should have language and consequences (like spelling and hyphenation) explained in Help, best after this bug is resolved. Lesson learned is that bug 113911 was wrongfully set to New without UX eval. Logic is not "I reproduce" but "Yes, there's a reason it should be changed". What's missing here now is a clear "expected" situation, Heiko please write it, using Eike's comment and Thomas' bugs.
Issue: "More..." in content menu at language panel in the status bar leads to Tools > Options > Language unlike Writer that goes to the character dialog (would be Cell in case of Calc). Related topics: In bug 76750 a main menu item is requested to change the language, bug 34142 deals with document, sheet, and cell wide language settings like Writer has, summary of bug 63558 is about auto detection in Draw but deals with the same as 34142, and bug 121700 is a duplicate of this but talking about paragraphs and characters. Technically, the language (locale) affects both text (spell-checking, hyphenation etc) and numbers (separators, currency etc.). Users compare Calc with Writer and might expect only text being affected, which is supported by the item "None (do not check spelling)". In other scenarios the user wants to change the number format or currency in the sheet. Tools -> Options -> Language Settings changes the whole document (and newly created), switching the language per content menu at the status bar affects the current document, and Format > Cells: Font applies to the selection. The status bar shows the document language and not the actual cell. There are settings for Numbers and Font in the cells property dialog so a cell can have two languages (locales). Proposal: 1. We split the status bar into number format and text language. Having "(English (USA)" twice is not perfectly clear to the user and maybe we should use "English (USA)" and "$1.234,00" 2. "More..." opens Format > Cell: Font and :Number respectively. 3. The context menu root entries apply to the selection. 4. We add another context menu entry "Set language for the document >" with the current content and functionality (like Writer has this for the paragraph). 5. We add the same structure to the main menu at Tools > Language and (5b) consequently another entry with Numbers. This goes way too far and we better exclude the numbers configuration. Meaning, the context menu just alters Format>Cell>Font and not the locale. So ignore #1 and 5b. 6. The language of the currently active cell is used for the status bar text.
Hi, I am sorry, fixing this bug, I have tasks assigned to Online, so Please if there is another member to take the bug, I will appreciate :)
Hi Caolán, I thought you might be interested in this issue
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Works as supposed, in the same way in Calc and Writer. Version: 7.4.0.3 / LibreOffice Community Build ID: f85e47c08ddd19c015c0114a68350214f7066f5a CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.4; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: lv-LV (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded
(In reply to andis.lazdins from comment #12) > Works as supposed, in the same way in Calc and Writer. Nope, it's still wrong, it also doesn't do the same. For Calc it leads to Tools -> Options -> Language Settings -> Languages, and the status bar indicator does not match either number format locale nor the text language of the current/selected cell(s) but the default document language instead, also picking a language from the context menu changes that default document language but not of the current/selected cell(s) if that was already something different.
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Yes, I was wrong. I just switched between languages already available in the list and it looked ok. When I pushed More... now, it led to Language selection in Tools.
Hi, can you please verify expected results for https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/138499 patch?
Henry Castro committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/161e8c63a5175a634b3ddaea4314e335b290a298 tdf#127856: sc: Status bar "languages" when you click... It will be available in 7.5.0. 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.
@Heiko, * UX Feedback on Henry's patch did not get done, and UX suggestions comment 8 were not fully addressed. So currently in master against 7.5 the Status bar's Text language field's 'More..' dialog now responds by opening the 'Format Cells' dialog on the Font tab, as for summary. And from there the cell/paragraph language can be set. However it does not fully solve the ask, which was to have the Status bar in Calc behave the same as in Writer and to *display* the Text language for the selected or cursor focused paragraph or Table cell. Instead Calc status bar continues to show the global document's default language setting. We've pushed/duped a number of issues for better language handling to bug 103036, but here adjusting language of the Calc status bar to be consistent with paragraph and table cell handling in Writer remains an issue. Reopen this, or add to the laundry list there so it does not get lost?
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #18) > Reopen this, or add to the laundry list there so it does not get lost? It opens the cell dialog but not at the Font tab. Would bring this up as a follow-up issue (unless Henry is around and reopen the ticket himself planning to work on it). I also have trouble to decipher Eike's comment 13...
No problem I will resolve the issue
>> It opens the cell dialog but not at the Font tab. Would bring this up as a >> follow-up issue can you please provide me images or screen cast how should look?, I did not understand it. meanwhile I will resolve the >> Instead Calc status bar continues to show the global document's default >> language setting.