Bug 142301 - Help documentation for cross-fading in Draw has wrong menu name
Summary: Help documentation for cross-fading in Draw has wrong menu name
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Documentation (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
6.3.6.2 release
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Whiteboard: target:7.3.0
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Reported: 2021-05-15 17:26 UTC by gtkpcsupport
Modified: 2022-11-08 09:48 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description gtkpcsupport 2021-05-15 17:26:33 UTC
Description:
Help documentation:
To cross-fade two objects:
 1. Hold down Shift and click each object.
 2. Choose Edit - Cross-fading.     (NO SUCH ENTRY)
 3. Enter a value to specify the number of objects between the start and end of the cross-fade in the Increments box.
 4. Click OK.

Cross-fading entry is only on the pull down list that is on the main menu Shape entry.


Steps to Reproduce:
1.entered cross-fade in help search
2.tried the steps specified
3.no entry on the edit menu

Actual Results:
Missing information on edit menu
documentation issue

Expected Results:
See cross-fade entry on edit menu
documentation issue


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
Software is fine. Function works but documentation is wrong as to where to find the cross-fade function.
Comment 1 Xisco Faulí 2021-05-18 08:23:06 UTC
@Olivier Hallot, I thought you might be interested in this issue
Comment 2 Rafael Lima 2021-08-30 12:17:05 UTC
Indeed the help files below say "Edit - Cross-fading" and they should be "Shape - Cross-fading".

https://help.libreoffice.org/7.2/en-US/text/sdraw/guide/cross_fading.html

https://help.libreoffice.org/7.2/en-US/text/simpress/01/02150000.html
Comment 3 Commit Notification 2021-08-31 15:53:08 UTC
Rafael Lima committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/help/commit/a3f7c8d5013aa8432e0e621f78426f183def0885

tdf#142301 Fix Cross-fading menu entry in the Help
Comment 4 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2022-11-08 09:48:02 UTC
Verified as fixed in pages:
https://help.libreoffice.org/7.3/en-US/text/sdraw/guide/cross_fading.html
and
https://help.libreoffice.org/7.3/en-US/text/simpress/01/02150000.html

Was already an issue for LO 6.3.6.2

Version: 6.3.6.2
Build ID: 2196df99b074d8a661f4036fca8fa0cbfa33a497
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; 
Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded