Bug 144938 - Writer table border styles offered are different in the toolbar button vs. Table Properties dialog
Summary: Writer table border styles offered are different in the toolbar button vs. Ta...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.2.0.4 release
Hardware: All All
: low minor
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: needsDevAdvice
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Blocks: Writer-Tables
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Reported: 2021-10-05 09:53 UTC by Buovjaga
Modified: 2026-01-29 12:17 UTC (History)
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2021-10-05 09:53 UTC, Buovjaga
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Description Buovjaga 2021-10-05 09:53:59 UTC
Created attachment 175532 [details]
Screenshot

See screenshot which has the dropdowns side by side.
Comment 1 Buovjaga 2021-10-05 12:17:25 UTC
Samuel mentioned that this "now needs UX input on which should be preferred"
Comment 2 Heiko Tietze 2021-10-05 13:05:59 UTC
Appears to be not a difference but a limitation, see svtools/inc/borderline.hrc missing in TB from "Fine Dashed". But besides, any change requires in respect to the new border width?
Comment 3 Heiko Tietze 2021-10-07 13:11:21 UTC
Looking at the image it's unclear what the differences exactly are (the list could benefit from labels, but those could be too long). The preview is also hard to read in the running application.

And I wonder if the list is defined in ODF. In this case we have to obey.
Comment 4 stragu 2022-01-26 12:45:38 UTC
Confirmed in:

Version: 7.3.0.2 / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: f1c9017ac60ecca268da7b1cf147b10e244b9b21
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.4; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

This makes it inconsistent for users, with no obvious reason why the two list should have different choices or a different order.
Comment 5 QA Administrators 2024-01-27 03:14:47 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 6 QA Administrators 2026-01-29 10:21:40 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 7 Buovjaga 2026-01-29 10:53:02 UTC
Still repro

Version: 26.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64)
Build ID: f2d7ca345a3eb398a1535dee87e963903fb3412b
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.18; UI render: default; VCL: kf6 (cairo+wayland)
Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded
Comment 8 Regina Henschel 2026-01-29 12:17:30 UTC
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #3)
> And I wonder if the list is defined in ODF. In this case we have to obey.

ODF uses the styles defined in https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/box.html#value-def-border-style.
But these can vary, depending on attribute style:border-line-width (20.248, part 3, ODF 1.4). So ODF has no fixed set of borders.

LibreOffice tries to provide a set of borders, that fit to those used in MS Office. However, there are some problems, e.g. bug 116592.

  (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #3)
> Looking at the image it's unclear what the differences exactly are (the list
> could benefit from labels, but those could be too long).

There are tooltips in both lists. You need to wait a little bit till the tooltip appears.