Bug 147996 - keyboardshortcut font-color doesn't work
Summary: keyboardshortcut font-color doesn't work
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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Blocks: Shortcuts-Accelerators
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Reported: 2022-03-15 07:42 UTC by Werner
Modified: 2023-03-11 03:24 UTC (History)
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Description Werner 2022-03-15 07:42:59 UTC
Description:
in older versions I could assign a shortcut to font-color (german: Zeichenfarbe)

I could select some text in writer, the press the shortcut and the selected text became colored with the font-color used last time before.

Now there are two problems:

1. in the menu, where I can (re)assign keyboard-shortcuts, there appears "Zeichenfarbe" (font-color) twice. No one works.

2. the font color used last time (button in a bar) changes back to a default-color after a while - formerly it didn't change automatically, but only could be changed by the user, which I prefere!!

Steps to Reproduce:
1. change font-color for some text
2. reassign shortcut to font-color (Zeichenfarbe) 
3. select some text
4. press the shortcut defined before

Actual Results:
1. some time later the choosen font color changes back (button in a bar)
4. nothing happens or (there are two "Zeichenfarbe"-commands, which can be assigned to a shortcut) it opens a font-property-dialog-window

Expected Results:
1. the font-color used last time should stay
2. there are several commands several times in the shortcut-reassigning-dialog - it would be better to use every name only once and make clear, what it means
4. pressing the shortcut should just make the selected text colored with the font-color choosen last time before


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
In older versions it worked fine.
Comment 1 Dieter 2022-03-29 06:10:05 UTC
I confirm it with

Version: 7.3.2.2 (x64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 49f2b1bff42cfccbd8f788c8dc32c1c309559be0
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19044; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: de-DE (de_DE); UI: en-GB
Calc: CL

Actual result
Shortcut for .uno:Color opens character dialog
Shortcut for .uno:FontColor doesn't work (nothing happens)
Comment 2 Justin L 2022-08-11 18:54:25 UTC
The "color changes back to default" happens after something like a "print preview". bug 139803

Ambiguous names was the topic of bug 108458.

Perhaps in your workflow it would work to use Edit-Repeat (Shift-Ctrl-Y)?

AFAICS, the difference (at least in the toolbars) between the two seemingly identical choices is:
uno:Color: with no selection, it applies to the whole word.
uno:FontColor: with no selection, it turns into a watering can.

And as Dieter clarified, the keyboard shortcut for uno:Color pops up the character properties dialog. (Already true in LO 3.5.) The keyboard shortcut is going to work similarly to a menu entry (like Format) - and a menu entry wouldn't make sense to apply a toolbar's color-value.

FontColor was in the main formatting toolbar (swriter/toolbar/textobjectbar.xml) until LO 5.4. https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/37203

I tested setting Ctrl-6 to uno:FontColor and Ctrl-7 to uno:Color in bibisect-linux-43all at the oldest commit I can run - LO 3.5.

I don't see how you could have had your desired results work in earlier versions. Can you identify a version where it worked, and then also the exact steps taken? NEEDINFO
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2023-02-08 03:24:48 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete, spam)
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2023-03-11 03:24:51 UTC
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