Description: UI: Make it possible to set the column with in % even with relative disabled Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open the attached file 2. Table -> Properties -> Column tab 4. Enter 20% in column 1 Actual Results: 20 cm enter reduced to something fitting (16,96) Expected Results: 20% of 17 cm width or don't allow %. I prefer the first Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: Version: 7.1.0.0.alpha0+ (x64) Build ID: 52820b52b3bca45e2db527d1cc5f4488b2e0b9d0 CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 6.3 Build 9600; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: nl-NL (nl_NL); UI: en-US Calc: CL
Follow-up/Different POV to bug 134924 duplicating bug 72662. Imagine percent to be tricky since you don't know what is 100% at the input field. The solution is a checkbox (in contrast to 72662) that allows to enter percent. And we have "[ ] Relative" at Table > Width (if not Alignment > Automatic) which makes all spinners showing the percentage - also at the column tab. You may suggest to switch this option on once the user enters % in any of the spin edit fields. Might work but is too much automatism in my opinion. So resolving the request WF.
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #1) > Follow-up/Different POV to bug 134924 duplicating bug 72662. > You may suggest to switch this option on once the user enters % in any of > the spin edit fields. Might work but is too much automatism in my opinion. -> Too much automatism? Not sure what the argument entails? However for people wanting a nice distribution and lazy for calculating :-). And this won't be the first hidden feature ;-). The child heading styles inherit the font size of the top heading. They defined relative.. Which makes sense and being awful at the same time :-). Relative to what. And what font size do I get .. but is here of topic of course :-) The column width number are coming from somewhere too. Of course not a that important, but nice to have IMHO And the spinbutton does already allow input in inch/pt even if system is set to cm :-). And defining in table width in points? Really?
(In reply to Telesto from comment #2) > -> Too much automatism? Wrote this some years ago https://hig.kde.org/components/editing/spinbox.html?highlight=spin: The spin edit takes numbers with or without a minimum/maximum. Pretty simple and known across all OS. You add a lot functionality by changing the unit per textual input. I like the idea even more than my manual selection (dropdown to select the unit per control) but in case of percentage it's a checkbox somewhere else. And I bet we have a lot of questions how to revert from percent to point for the font size (which allows this switch).
And by the way, the relation between this request and bug 134924 is unclear to me. Smells very much duplicate.
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #4) > And by the way, the relation between this request and bug 134924 is unclear > to me. Smells very much duplicate. Nope.. shouldn't have used % at the initial report.. but surely not a duplicate; Comment 7 demonstrates the issue I actually mean
Problems with relative column width are addressed in bug 109305.
(In reply to Regina Henschel from comment #6) > Problems with relative column width are addressed in bug 109305. And UI changes should be discussed in bug 145739 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 109305 ***