The aspect ratio, or proportion of height to width is an important feature of many objects in LO, and specifically of chart areas. Unfortunately, while some objects, such as drawing shapes, can be resized while maintaining proportions, e.g. using Shift-drag, Chart areas cannot. That is, there is no way to force LO to restrict you to aspect-ratio-maintaining resizing. Charts should at least respect Shift-drag for proportional resizing of the chart area.
... and I'd say this is a bug since it breaks behavior consistency with other resizable entities for no reason.
Please provide STR. When I resize the chart from bug 163807 the pie remains proportional either in chart edit mode, ie. you only touch the pie, or the view mode and resize the entire object.
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #2) > Please provide STR. When I resize the chart from bug 163807 Note I said resizing the chart _area_ - within the chart, not resizing the chart as an object. And the steps to reproduce are: 1. Create some chart (e.g. pie or bar) 2. Enter the chart 3. Select the Chart Area 4. Resize by Shift+dragging
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When the chart is in edit mode, resizing is not possible with keeping ratio. More, numerical resizing is not possible at all. For me it is a valid request to enhance the UI for resizing a chart in edit mode.
+1 from my side. This change would affect all embedded objects. Code pointer is: SvResizeWindow::MouseMove In: toolkit/source/hatchwindow/ipwin.cxx
We discussed the topic in the design meeting. Bar charts and other always resize unconditional but sometimes it makes sense to retain the aspect ratio. We propose to introduce the same behavior as known from objects in the document namely to keep the ratio if shift is being pressed.