Bug 161949 - When toggling an item in toolbar context menu > Visible Buttons - keep the menu open
Summary: When toggling an item in toolbar context menu > Visible Buttons - keep the me...
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
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25.2.0.0 alpha0+
Hardware: All All
: medium trivial
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Blocks: Toolbars
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Reported: 2024-07-08 12:48 UTC by Eyal Rozenberg
Modified: 2024-07-16 10:19 UTC (History)
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Description Eyal Rozenberg 2024-07-08 12:48:43 UTC
We can use the right-mouse-click context menu on a toolbar to toggle the visibility of items, via the "Visible Items" menu. However, at the moment, these toggles make the menu disappear, so that you have to move your mouse to the toolbar again, right click, navigate to the Visible Buttons submenu, then navigate along it (and it's a long menu) while keeping both menus open. That's a lot of work if you want to toggle multiple items...

I suggest changing the behavior so that toggling items in Visible Buttons submenu would keep the menu open, so that the user would need to leave it in the direction of the context menu, or press Esc, or click somewhere, to close it.

Detriment: Breaks typical menu toggle behavior
Comment 1 Heiko Tietze 2024-07-09 10:17:05 UTC
-1 to change standard behavior (a context menu closes on click), less strongly objecting the use case (complex interaction with items, requiring a different UI). The point of this menu is to change one item, it's not meant for a full-fledged customization. We have a dialog for this purpose. => NAB/WF
Comment 2 V Stuart Foote 2024-07-09 12:46:33 UTC
The 'Customize Toolbar...' launch of the full dialog is simply the better way to adjust *multiple items* on a TB (or other UI component)--it already includes all the check-box selections for button actions as assigned (or previously customized) and available to select on the 'Visible buttons' context sub-menu.

Making multiple-selections from the 'Visible buttons' menu would be at odds with all other menu selection actions--that apply immediately and close the menu.

And would require some awkward UI, <Esc> or <Apply>,<OK> to then exit the sub-menu.

So see no real advantage to changing behavior and making the sub-menu stateful for multiple picks. 

-1 and => WF
Comment 3 Heiko Tietze 2024-07-16 10:19:41 UTC
Some disagreement to the idea, resolving as NAB.