Bug 139122 - Improve help page for toolbars to clarify their locked/unlocked status
Summary: Improve help page for toolbars to clarify their locked/unlocked status
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Documentation (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.0.0.3 release
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Ming Hua
URL:
Whiteboard: target:7.2.0
Keywords:
: 139101 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: Help-Changes-Features
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Reported: 2020-12-21 11:19 UTC by Ming Hua
Modified: 2020-12-28 13:16 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Ming Hua 2020-12-21 11:19:34 UTC
Since version 7.0, toolbars are locked by default (see bug 92484).  So in the default UI, toolbars don't show any handles, and have to be unlocked before they can be moved or undocked.

The current help page for toolbars
https://help.libreoffice.org/7.2/en-US/text/shared/guide/floating_toolbar.html
doesn't mention the locked/unlocked status of toolbars at all, and the "To Make a Toolbar a Floating Toolbar" section talks as if the toolbars are unlocked by default, and causes users' confusion like bug 139101.

That help page probably needs improvements in many places, and mentioning the locked/unlocked status, as well as telling users to unlock the toolbar before further actions would be a good step.
Comment 1 V Stuart Foote 2020-12-21 14:50:54 UTC
*** Bug 139101 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Ming Hua 2020-12-25 17:20:53 UTC
I gave it a try at:
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/help/+/108297
Comment 3 Commit Notification 2020-12-27 16:46:44 UTC
Ming Hua committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/help/commit/eec60108b90928b81d094f7f37250164467d8cd6

tdf#139122 Add information about locking/unlocking toolbars