When I place my cursor in a table cell, * The context menu doesn't let me set the row height at all. * I can't drag the row border to change the height. * The format menu _does_ let me set the row height - but only by minimizing it; I can't optimize, can't distribute evenly and can't set to an arbitrary value. That is simply insufficient. When I select a single table cell out of multiple cells in a row, * The context menu doesn't let me set the row height at all. * I _can_ drag the row border to change the height. * The format menu _does_ let me set the row height - but only by minimizing it; I can't optimize, can't distribute evenly and can't set to an arbitrary value. That's still insufficient IMHO.
You cannot set a precise value at all in Impress/Draw. And I wonder if it's necessary.
*** Bug 151338 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I'd expect to get a more or less precise height via spacing before/after the text (and a minimum height) but this doesn't work at all; and "spacing between" only adds on top. Besides the bugs there is no urgent need to enter precise values for a row height nor some clear use case in the sd/ context. => low priority
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #1) > You cannot set a precise value at all in Impress/Draw. And I wonder if it's > necessary. It's vital and critical to be able to set precise dimensions of all elements in a drawing - that's what a drawing is often about: Precise scaled representation of something. Now, it's true that a table is not a typical Draw element, but - it's still in the context of a Drawing. In impress, it is important to be set dimensions of elements in a slide, including a table - it is an aspect of the design. ... but all of that is beside the point, because this bug is not about making a _precise_ setting, but making _a_ setting, even an imprecise one. > I'd expect to get a more or less precise height via spacing before/after the text (and a minimum height) That something quite different. A table row may contain multiple paragraphs with multiple lines within the paragraph; or its text may be empty, with some non-textual objects located inside the cells somehow. > Besides the bugs there is no urgent need to enter precise values The need is to control the height of a row. We can control the height of a textbox, and of a table - and in the same sense, also the height of a row. Such control is possible in Calc and in Writer - both by dragging and via the context menu. That should also be the case in Impress and Draw.