Bug 163991 - Text Attributes dialog for Textbox - fir option group still confusing
Summary: Text Attributes dialog for Textbox - fir option group still confusing
Status: UNCONFIRMED
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Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
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24.8.2.1 release
Hardware: All All
: medium minor
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Blocks: Textbox
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Reported: 2024-11-22 15:11 UTC by Eyal Rozenberg
Modified: 2024-12-07 03:14 UTC (History)
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Description Eyal Rozenberg 2024-11-22 15:11:50 UTC
Consider the first section Text Attributes dialog for text boxes. It says:

Text
-----------
Drawing Object Text:

[ ] Fit width to text
[ ] Fit height to text
[ ] Fit to Frame


IIRC, this used to be phrased more poorly, but regardless - this is still  problematic:

1. This section does not control just the behavior of _text_ or the text _area_ - it also controls the height and width of the box. For this reason, it is incorrect to call it, twice, "Text > Drawing Object Text:"  ; at least the secondary title should mention the box dimensions, e.g.

"Text vs Box Dimensions"

or 

"Text dimensions within box"

etc.

2. What is the "frame"? We don't have "frames" in textboxes. The third item can't be labeled that way.

3. What is being fitted to the frame? The label doesn't say. If this section was really only about "Text", then - it would mean fit the text to the frame; but considering (1.), that will no longer be the case. So this should probably be named something like

"Stretch text to fit shape dimensions"

(as it doesn't even fit in the sense of enlarging. Or maybe

"Stretch text to fit height & width"