Bug 157632 - Can't set text direction via sidebar when object selected in Impress (not in edit mode)
Summary: Can't set text direction via sidebar when object selected in Impress (not in ...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 153990
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Impress (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
5.4.0.3 release
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
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Reported: 2023-10-06 08:30 UTC by Eyal Rozenberg
Modified: 2023-11-02 22:50 UTC (History)
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Screenshot with object selected and direction buttons grayed out (114.78 KB, image/png)
2023-10-23 09:31 UTC, Eyal Rozenberg 		Details
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Description Eyal Rozenberg 2023-10-06 08:30:22 UTC 
If you select multiple drawing objects on an Impress slide, the sidebar properties deck grays-out the direction buttons (LTR/RTL) - while not graying out paragraph properties like h-alignment, spacing etc. That shouldn't be the case, and one should definitely be able to the directions of multiple objects.
Comment 1 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-10-23 09:04:04 UTC 
I can't see those direction buttons, even with the RTL UI turned on with SAL_RTL_ENABLED=1

Are they supposed to be in the Paragraph section?

Version: 24.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: fd69b546ad36452560cb11ccb28e78632d65f045
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 2 Eyal Rozenberg 2023-10-23 09:31:28 UTC 
Created attachment 190381 [details]
Screenshot with object selected and direction buttons grayed out

Screenshot.
Comment 3 Eyal Rozenberg 2023-10-23 09:33:14 UTC 
Actually, it's even "worse" - the direction buttons are grayed out even for a single selected object (and no button is pressed, i.e. direction is not represented; and that is unlike, say, the alignment buttons).

Seeing this with:

Version: 24.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 3161a6c351a2f5f70c0420ee8cccf2eb23de1ecf
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.5; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: he-IL (en_IL); UI: en-US


and

Version: 7.6.2.1 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 56f7684011345957bbf33a7ee678afaf4d2ba333
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.5; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-IL (en_IL); UI: en-US
Comment 4 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-10-24 06:38:58 UTC 
OK, I didn't have CTL turned on in Tools > Options > Languages. I can now see those buttons, but you are right, they are greyed out when an object is selected. They are only active when in edit mode.

Version: 5.4.0.3
Build ID: 92c2794a7c181ba4c1c5053618179937228ed1fb
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk2; 
Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); Calc: group

Version: 24.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: fd69b546ad36452560cb11ccb28e78632d65f045
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 5 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-11-02 22:50:00 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 153990 ***