Since background fill is supported in Impress, the Area dialog's Area tab is significantly wider, seemingly because all buttons use the same size based on the longest string – "Use Background". We should find a way to reduce that width, so it is consistent with other components and so it still fits on small displays. Steps to reproduce: 1. Open Impress 2. Insert a shape 3. Context menu > Area > Area tab 4. Click through all options to see how unnecessarily wide the dialog is Is there a good was to have None and Use Background grouped somehow, given that they are related in their effect and in that they don't offer any extra settings? Tested in: Version: 24.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 410632ac4b8a280e0993e665ffa9cfede8326b49 CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded Same in 7.4.
Agree, bTW 'Use background' tab it's empty. Version: 24.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 410632ac4b8a280e0993e665ffa9cfede8326b49 CPU threads: 16; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 22621; UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win Locale: es-ES (es_ES); UI: en-US Calc: CL threaded Jumbo
Created attachment 189477 [details] The dialog in 24.2 bibisect and after the patch Proposed patch: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/156804 Not having this setting reduces width from more than half of a 1080p screen to less than half of it. Tried to play a bit with other settings (spacing, expand, fill, alignment...) in Glade, but changing those had no similar effect.
Gabor Kelemen committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/f9f5f80c758ca5f690827bc045b8ef66e16a46a2 tdf#157101 Make Area dialog narrower It will be available in 24.2.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Fix verified in: Version: 24.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 43df1237a091e2b0f4495d5a7e959f7beaab025d CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded Thank you Gabor!
Gabor Kelemen committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-7-6": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/4f94245ef7ac0b49729c14454f02a28c70b6ac44 tdf#157101 Make Area dialog narrower It will be available in 7.6.2. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.