Description: In Calc, the preset border options available via buttons are different between the toolbar, the sidebar and the format dialog. It is expected for the cell format dialog ("Border" tab) to have different options as: - it also gives the option to pick the borders by clicking in the preview - and it changes depending on if the user has one single cell selected or several However, the toolbar and sidebar options should be more consistent. They currently show different selections of options, in different orders, with different labels. The sidebar has 16 presets, including 5 that the toolbar does not offer: - Thick box border - Thick bottom border - Double bottom border - Top and thick bottom borders - Top and double bottom borders The toolbar has 15 presets, including 4 that the sidebar does not offer: - Top and bottom borders, and all horizontal lines - Outer border and horizontal lines - Outer border and vertical lines - Criss-cross border In total, the sidebar and the toolbar have 20 different presets. It would make sense to have the same presets in both, presented in the same order. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Calc 2. Click on Borders button, see options 3. Open the Properties sidebar, scroll to bottom, click on "Specify the borders of the selected cells" button, see options Actual Results: Options are different Expected Results: Options are the same Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: The options available have been different between the two for a while, at least since LO 6.4, but for the purpose of this bug, I am marking it as starting since 7.3 because that's when diagonal options started showing in the toolbar. Version: 7.3.0.1 / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 840fe2f57ae5ad80d62bfa6e25550cb10ddabd1d CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 5.4; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded
Created attachment 177185 [details] Overview of options between toolbar, sidebar and dialog (LO 7.3) This spreadsheet gives an overview of the border presets available in: - sidebar - toolbar - format dialog (multiple cells) - format dialog (single cell) For version: Version: 7.3.0.1 / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 840fe2f57ae5ad80d62bfa6e25550cb10ddabd1d CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 5.4; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded
Confirm this Version: 7.4.0.0.alpha0+ / LibreOffice Community Build ID: c13db6e792cc347ffff4585f23866f195651f21f CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 5.11; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: ro-RO (ro_RO.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded
Your document is very well documented.
(In reply to BogdanB from comment #3) > Your document is very well documented. Thanks BogdanB. Glad you think it might be useful. I'm wondering if the toolbar and the sidebar could point to the exact same UI element to create the dropdown list? That would make the codebase more consistent and maintainable. Or de they have to be fundamentally different kinds of UI elements?
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Situation hasn't changed in: Version: 24.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 960e37af28807ed1b376e26c4504ab755a81dfd5 CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded Marking as an enhacenemt rather than a bug though. UX/Design team, what do you think about unifying the two widgets, for simplification and consistency?
Seems to have been like this forever. I would rework both and clean-up the choices. Thickness can be changed separately, applying left/right and criss-cross could be done in two steps, and the "styled" variants in the sidebar are rather something for the autoformat/table style feature. However, we should consider a sane arrangement of items too. So ultimately I favor the sidebar with some changes in the 4x4 scheme None, outside, all, criss-cross, left, right, top, bottom, diagonal down, diagonal up, top-bottom, left-right Some code pointer: sc/uiconfig/scalc/ui/floatingborderstyle.ui sc/source/ui/sidebar/CellBorderStyleControl.cxx svx/uiconfig/ui/floatingframeborder.ui svx/source/tbxctrls/tbcontrl.cxx https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/118951