Bug 163017 - Autofilter buttons should look like (native) UI buttons
Summary: Autofilter buttons should look like (native) UI buttons
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Blocks: AutoFilter
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Reported: 2024-09-17 19:59 UTC by Eyal Rozenberg
Modified: 2024-12-20 19:52 UTC (History)
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Autofilter buttons vs UI buttons (LO 25.02 nightly) (26.75 KB, image/png)
2024-09-17 19:59 UTC, Eyal Rozenberg
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screenshot (15.27 KB, image/png)
2024-12-17 20:45 UTC, BogdanB
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AutoFilter dropdown in Google Sheets (29.51 KB, image/png)
2024-12-20 19:52 UTC, Rafael Lima
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Description Eyal Rozenberg 2024-09-17 19:59:43 UTC
Created attachment 196514 [details]
Autofilter buttons vs UI buttons (LO 25.02 nightly)

The down-arrow buttons we get when AutoFilter is in effect look "custom-drawn", and remind me of Windows 95 or even Windows 3.x down-arrow buttons. Be that as it may - they are certainly different than the buttons we see on combo-boxes, and the down-arrow is not even like the ones we see on toolbar menubuttons.

It would be more visually pleasing if the buttons, and the down-arrows, looked like (or actually were) native widgets.
Comment 1 Rafael Lima 2024-09-18 18:18:47 UTC
I'm not sure about the feasibility of using native widgets here, specially because of zoom levels.

However I agree with you about the need to redesign this button... it feels old to me as well.

I like the minimal design in Google Sheets.
Comment 2 BogdanB 2024-12-17 20:45:23 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 3 Rafael Lima 2024-12-20 19:52:23 UTC
Created attachment 198194 [details]
AutoFilter dropdown in Google Sheets

(In reply to BogdanB from comment #2)
> Google Sheet dropdown mentioned by Rafael.

Actually your screehshot shows a data validation dropdown in Google Sheets.

I've just attached an example from Google Sheets where you have the AutoFilter dropdown. TBH I like them because they're clean and light on the eyes.