Description: In Word, if I have a list of bullet items, I can click on the Formatting Brush and "paint across" other items (that currently aren't bullet items) and turn them into bullet items. I Libre Writer, that doesn't work. Can this feature be added? Steps to Reproduce: Create two lists: one two three one two three Highlight the first list and click on the "bullet list" icon to turn the list into a bullet list. Highlight the bulleted list, click on the Clone Formatting tool, the "paint" the second list. I expected the second list to turn into a bulleted list (as it does in Word), but there's no change. Actual Results: No change to the second list. Expected Results: It should become a bullet list. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: Yes OpenGL enabled: Yes Additional Info: n.a.
Created attachment 177301 [details] Output from OpenGL window
I can confirm with Version: 7.4.0.0.alpha0+ / LibreOffice Community Build ID: eee703970581545b56f3b2faa5b5911923ec28ea CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 5.11; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: cs-CZ (cs_CZ.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded Jumbo and Version 4.1.0.0.alpha0+ (Build ID: efca6f15609322f62a35619619a6d5fe5c9bd5a)
Sometimes, when testing with some old version like 4.1, clue is to test with older version and OO. LO 3.5 used to apply bullets, LO 3.6 applied only in last item, LO 4.0 doesn't apply. So this can be called regression bibisectable in 43all.
1st change: commit 782be4193770a332476f99538efa5967d79af5c3 Date: Thu Apr 26 23:37:39 2012 +0200 source-hash-8757c9c462ba690de60602404ef2e9e99702f0b4 prev source-hash-45295f3cdceb4c289553791071b5d7f4962d2ec4 https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/log/?qt=range&q=45295f3cdceb4c289553791071b5d7f4962d2ec4..8757c9c462ba690de60602404ef2e9e99702f0b4 Seems: author Maxime de Roucy <mderoucy@linagora.com> 2012-03-14 commit 357fac9713875302d30185feabaf5c165e040ca4 Rewrite of the format paintbrush With this patch the format paintbrush differentiate automatic character attributes apply to character than those apply to paragraph. Character attributes applied to paragraph are treat as paragraph format when paragraph format are copied (and so apply to paragraph), and treat as character format when paragraph format are not copied. It also change the behavior of the format paintbrush on "restart numbering" and "restart numbering at" attributes. With this patch those attributes are simply copied… as expected. 2nd change: 7742d3f486b624b5467b51abdccf658dbbafc505 is the first chenge commit Date: Mon Dec 10 00:39:03 2012 source-hash-836822522a2e9f009c0870cbbcd48d45bbd3c622 prev source-hash-15af925c254f27046427de70a59011e2ac3d6bdb https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/log/?qt=range&q=15af925c254f27046427de70a59011e2ac3d6bdb..836822522a2e9f009c0870cbbcd48d45bbd3c622 Seems: author Maxime de Roucy <mderoucy@linagora.com> 2012-03-14 commit 1574c76ec20d1da479ed7e9c85a6cefacc132dfe Format paintbrush default behaviour Don't copy paragraph formats by default So we need someone to decipher this.
Hi Heiko. Can you please see this or point to someone else?
(In reply to Timur from comment #5) > Hi Heiko. Can you please see this or point to someone else? All Greek to me. Mike, do you understand this commit message?
As explained in help [1]: > By default only the character formatting is copied ; to include paragraph > formatting, hold down Ctrl when you click. To copy only the paragraph > formatting, hold down Ctrl+Shift when you click. That is exactly what was implemented in the mentioned commits. It is not a regression. When you want to change paragraph formatting, just hold Ctrl. That is also hinted by the tooltip on the Format Paintbrush tool (see someone's commit https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/effc05eecb1359239ca7a86103a6fd9fc8424015). [1] https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/shared/guide/paintbrush.html
Thanks. I used Ctrl and it didn't work. I'm not user how Ctrl+Shift works.
(In reply to Timur from comment #8) > I used Ctrl and it didn't work. I used Ctrl and it worked ;) Please be specific how you describe your actions. You could make a mistake e.g. that you pressed Ctrl when clicking on the toolbar button, or when clicking on the source text, while in reality you only need to hold Ctrl when applying the formatting (i.e., clicking/selecting the target text).