When one clicks a shape in the Shapes deck of the sidebar, and draws a bounding rectangle for the shape - in some cases, the active tool goes back to something other than drawing that shape; and in some cases, the shape remains the active tool, and drawing a rectangle or just clicking somewhere inserts another instance of the shape. There are two issues here: 1. It is difficult for the user to predict when either of the cases will occur with a press on a shape. 2. The visual indication in the sidebar - a (double) frame around the shape - does not seem to distinguish between these two states. I believe this should merits UI designer attention and thought. Among other ideas, perhaps we should default to single-instantiation-always upon the first click on the shape, and only enter "repeat insertion mode" on a double click or second click? Similarly to how the Android's on-screen keyboard's shift key behaves w.r.t. entering uppercase letters?
Draw and Impress have the simple rule for the drawing toolbar: Single-click on the icon draws one object and double-click on the icon goes in sticky-mode of that icon to draw several objects. Clicking on a different icon turns off sticky-mode. Of cause Esc-key and Select-icon turn off sticky-mode as well. The sidebar behaves different. If you have once used an icon in sticky-mode, than it keeps that mode for other icons of the same category. It goes in normal mode when you use an icon from a different category. The sidebar has no indication whether it is in sticky mode or not. The behavior of the sidebar is inconsistent, not obvious and different from the drawing toolbar. I agree that the behavior of the sidebar has to be changed. I think, the sidebar should behave the same as the drawing toolbar in regard to double-click and sticky-mode. As indication that it is not in sticky-mode, the selection frame around the icon should be removed after the shape is drawn.
(In reply to Regina Henschel from comment #1) > The sidebar has no indication whether it is in sticky mode or not. This is the crux of this bug. > As indication that it is not in sticky-mode, the selection frame around the > icon should be removed after the shape is drawn. That would be helpful (but I'm not against some other option for how to indicate stickiness). > The behavior of the sidebar is inconsistent, not obvious and different from > the drawing toolbar. I agree that the behavior of the sidebar has to be > changed. Should we split this bug in two, one for the visual indication and one for the behavior itself?
(In reply to Regina Henschel from comment #1) > ... > The behavior of the sidebar is inconsistent, not obvious and different from > the drawing toolbar. I agree that the behavior of the sidebar has to be > changed. > > I think, the sidebar should behave the same as the drawing toolbar in regard > to double-click and sticky-mode. > > As indication that it is not in sticky-mode, the selection frame around the > icon should be removed after the shape is drawn. +1, for adjustment to SB content panel widget handling in effort to match TB widgets; here specifically to insertion modes for shapes and other draw objects.
Regina and Stuart agree, same for me, let's mark as a New enhancement request. Was already the case when the deck was added in 6.1: Version: 6.1.0.3 Build ID: efb621ed25068d70781dc026f7e9c5187a4decd1 CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk2; Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); Calc: group threaded (Related issue in my opinion is that the single-click in Writer's Standard toolbar is sticky.)
(In reply to Regina Henschel from comment #1) > I think, the sidebar should behave the same as the drawing toolbar in regard > to double-click and sticky-mode. > > As indication that it is not in sticky-mode, the selection frame around the > icon should be removed after the shape is drawn. +1