Bug 163273 - Line Thickness command toolbar widget shouldn't be a textbox with a spinner control
Summary: Line Thickness command toolbar widget shouldn't be a textbox with a spinner c...
Status: NEW
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Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
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Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Reported: 2024-10-03 17:28 UTC by Eyal Rozenberg
Modified: 2025-02-10 09:14 UTC (History)
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Shot of the line thickness widget, LO Impress 24.8 (19.99 KB, image/png)
2024-10-03 17:29 UTC, Eyal Rozenberg
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Shot of the line color widget when open, LO 24.8 (42.33 KB, image/png)
2024-10-03 17:30 UTC, Eyal Rozenberg
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Description Eyal Rozenberg 2024-10-03 17:28:09 UTC
When I add the "Line Thickess" command to a toolbar, I expect to see a menubutton, with a few common optional thicknesses, and hopefully also some way to open the full-fledged Line... properties dialog.

Instead, I get a super-wide 

[  0.00 cm   |-|+]

box, taking the space of four toolbar buttons. IMNSHO, that's not good.
Comment 1 Eyal Rozenberg 2024-10-03 17:29:55 UTC
Created attachment 196869 [details]
Shot of the line thickness widget, LO Impress 24.8
Comment 2 Eyal Rozenberg 2024-10-03 17:30:56 UTC
Created attachment 196870 [details]
Shot of the line color widget when open, LO 24.8

The small and unassuming line color widget expands into a wealth of selectable items. And still, when closed it's quite compact.
Comment 3 Heiko Tietze 2025-02-06 11:23:10 UTC
The sidebar has controls for style, thickness, and color. Don't think it's worth the effort to create more controls without a good use case.
Comment 4 Eyal Rozenberg 2025-02-06 19:05:43 UTC
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #3)
> The sidebar has controls for style, thickness, and color.

If I were relying on the sidebar, I wouldn't be adding this control to a toolbar.

> Don't think it's
> worth the effort to create more controls without a good use case.

The control already exists. Given that it does, it should be more reasonable. A spinner control is not what I believe users would expect for line thickness. And the mini-dialog already exists - it can be adapted from the sidebar line width control; so not that much coding effort.
Comment 5 Heiko Tietze 2025-02-10 09:14:08 UTC
Don't know why this needs UX input then. If you believe it's an easyhack please add code pointer (or involve the dev mentor).