Bug 141774 - Make cell border dropdown from Sidebar available for Toolbar
Summary: Make cell border dropdown from Sidebar available for Toolbar
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.2.0.0.alpha0+
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Blocks: Cell-Border
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Reported: 2021-04-20 09:43 UTC by Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia)
Modified: 2022-01-26 12:41 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Cell border dropdown (150.38 KB, image/png)
2021-04-20 09:43 UTC, Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia)
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Description Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) 2021-04-20 09:43:53 UTC
Created attachment 171307 [details]
Cell border dropdown

The sidebar has a cell border dropdown, similiar to the one found in the toolbar, but with more (and better) choices.

We should replace the toolbar cell border widget with the one in the sidebar, so that the same widget can be found in both places.

See this commit for a similiar fix: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=5929a87b8137bf6326adfd4ddfd8075e585ae15c
Comment 1 Heiko Tietze 2021-05-05 11:57:55 UTC
Not 12 but 16 options, okay. And consolidation is always good.

But this aside I don't see much advantage. In particular the widget is not a toggle and lacks on feedback what is applied to the cell(s), see bug 113606 and bug 38543 (widget should be the same on Writer).
Comment 2 Heiko Tietze 2021-05-13 10:13:01 UTC
We discussed the topic in the design meeting. Not much of an advantage and maybe even too much for users. Spacing between items is too large. Advantage of the sidebar widget is the double-underlined border, which is often used in Calc. It would be even better to have a small set of standard items and some "recently used" or "favorites". Last but not least, if the exercise aims to consolidate code it might be a lost battle since the current toolbar widget is used in Writer as well. But the diagonal "borders" are a Calc-only feature. So the recommendation is WF.
Comment 3 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2022-01-26 12:41:10 UTC
Adding bug 146468 to "See Also" as it is a similar request.

(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #2)
> Last but not least, if the exercise
> aims to consolidate code it might be a lost battle since the current toolbar
> widget is used in Writer as well. But the diagonal "borders" are a Calc-only
> feature. So the recommendation is WF.

The situation has evolved a bit, since the diagonal "borders" are being added to Writer: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/120262