Description: The position and base point are not working at all. When trying to set the base point to center or other locations on a circle (or other object) it will not work. This is in addition to the Base Point not remembering (also an issue). Please fix this, really need! Steps to Reproduce: 1.Place any object in the drawing 2. Select it 3. Go to Format, Position and Size 4. Select a new base point other than upper left corner 5. Hit OK Actual Results: Object is still using the upper left corner as base point Expected Results: Base point reference updates for selected object Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: On first trying this Draw Crashed and closed. After retrying it would not crash but would not work. Removed and reinstalled Draw, still no joy. Using Ubuntu Studio 64 (KDE) most up to date as of 09/09/22 Using Ubuntu Discover to install and uninstall.
Just found a temp workaround. 1. Know where you want the center of your object for X and Y 2. Select object and right click Position and Size 3. Select the new base point (such as center) 4 Enter the x and y you want the base point center to be on 5. Hit OK and it will snap to that location. The desire is to have this work as you chance and update inside the Position and Size dialog box and believe that was the intent for how it should work. This workaround will get me by for now.
The "base point" is not a property of the shape but a tool in the dialog to determine the anchor for size changes or determine the point for the entered x/y-values. So the current behavior is not a bug. Even if we decide to make it a property of the shape, it would not be possible to save this information to ODF, an extension of the file format would be needed. The problem, that the base point is not persistent is already tracked in bug 57663. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 57663 ***