Bug 166964 - Impress -> Sidebar -> Layouts - UI enhancement
Summary: Impress -> Sidebar -> Layouts - UI enhancement
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Impress (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
unspecified
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Parth Raiyani
URL:
Whiteboard: target:26.2.0 inReleaseNotes:26.2
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Blocks: Sidebar-Properties-Layouts
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Reported: 2025-06-12 12:36 UTC by Parth Raiyani
Modified: 2025-07-03 08:31 UTC (History)
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Description Parth Raiyani 2025-06-12 12:36:48 UTC
Description:
current state: The layouts panel likely uses a ValueSet widget for displaying slide layout options.

Enhancement: Convert to Iconview widget for enhancement as native GTK widget is better and it would also improve web-based libreoffice experience. 

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open impress
2. Go to sidebar
3. Find the Layouts section

Actual Results:
Currently, the Impress sidebar layouts panel uses a ValueSet widget to display slide layout options.

Expected Results:
The layouts panel should use a native IconView widget instead of the ValueSet widget.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
Version: 25.04.2.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 1c61a807a96ff0ba0ef081287784eec6c9200ec4
CPU threads: 16; OS: Linux 6.11; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 Commit Notification 2025-06-13 06:01:23 UTC
Parth Raiyani committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/cf523a77a76645f301aaa43b57b0c78c8c685561

tdf#166964 Switch to IconView in LayoutMenu for improved UI handling

It will be available in 26.2.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 2 Buovjaga 2025-06-21 12:46:10 UTC
Parth: you added this to https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/25.8 so I guess you were planning to backport this to 25.8, right? I'm asking as I don't see a patch yet.
Comment 3 Parth Raiyani 2025-06-23 09:09:33 UTC
(In reply to Buovjaga from comment #2)
> Parth: you added this to
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/25.8 so I guess you were
> planning to backport this to 25.8, right? I'm asking as I don't see a patch
> yet.

Thanks for the ping. I accidentally added in wrong version. It is for 26.2.0 version. I removed it from release notes.