Bug 140880 - Navigator entry for an object should show indicator in case of a group-of-objects
Summary: Navigator entry for an object should show indicator in case of a group-of-obj...
Status: REOPENED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.2.0.0.alpha0+
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
URL:
Whiteboard: target:26.8.0
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Depends on:
Blocks: Navigator
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Reported: 2021-03-08 12:15 UTC by Telesto
Modified: 2026-05-13 13:57 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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screenshot of proposed patch (26.95 KB, image/png)
2026-03-03 23:30 UTC, Jim Raykowski
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Description Telesto 2021-03-08 12:15:31 UTC
Description:
Indicator to navigator if an item based group of items

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open attachment 170053 [details]
2. Sidebar -> Navigator -> Drawing objects (notice 1 object) 

Actual Results:
Showing one result

Expected Results:
* Make clear - with some indicator - this being grouped set of items
* And maybe include Ungroup in the Navigator Drawing objects context menu.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
Version: 7.2.0.0.alpha0+ (x64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 722ec600e85cca2e94e82e69f8d13773061172b9
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 6.3 Build 9600; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: nl-NL (nl_NL); UI: nl-NL
Calc: CL
Comment 1 Heiko Tietze 2021-03-09 09:22:02 UTC
Even better when the DrawingObject node contains the grouped objects as childrens. But improvement ideas to the Navigator are not new.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 90244 ***
Comment 2 Eyal Rozenberg 2026-02-14 18:57:54 UTC
This issue is not specific to Draw at all: We have drawing objects in most LO modules.

But - we should copy the relevant bits of discussion from bug 90244 into this bug (separating them from irrelevant parts of the discussion.)
Comment 3 Regina Henschel 2026-02-16 15:47:17 UTC
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #1)
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 90244 ***

It us not a duplicate. The problem is neither in Draw nor in Impress. In Draw and Impress the Navigator has a + that you can open and access the objects inside the group. Such + does not exist in Writer and does not exist in Calc. The request is to enhance the Navigator in Write and Calc to the same feature as in Draw and Impress.
Comment 4 Jim Raykowski 2026-03-03 22:08:16 UTC
Effort for Writer Navigator drawing objects groups:
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/200914
Comment 5 Jim Raykowski 2026-03-03 23:30:00 UTC
Created attachment 205914 [details]
screenshot of proposed patch
Comment 6 Heiko Tietze 2026-03-16 16:20:58 UTC
LGTM!
Comment 7 Commit Notification 2026-03-30 01:48:22 UTC
Jim Raykowski committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/64a7d5179b84b9098de416b9d48d509ff552c0b6

tdf#140880 Navigator draw objects: Show group indicator

It will be available in 26.8.0.

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.
Comment 8 BogdanB 2026-03-30 15:31:25 UTC
I built LibreOffice and at the moment the only difference I see is the icon for group shape in front of object name.

Version: 26.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64)
Build ID: 107aff7382654109b614a24d933dc6301dac06d1
CPU threads: 16; OS: Linux 6.17; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 9 BogdanB 2026-03-30 15:32:55 UTC
Sorry, this was the bug, but I expected to see also "And maybe include Ungroup in the Navigator Drawing objects context menu." As for this bug is perfect, it is solved.