Bug 167483 - EDITING: Graphic styles options cannot be viewed--need to add a slider to the UI
Summary: EDITING: Graphic styles options cannot be viewed--need to add a slider to th...
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Draw (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
25.2.4.3 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
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Blocks: Vertical-Tab-dialogs
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Reported: 2025-07-12 21:14 UTC by DrC
Modified: 2025-07-13 11:30 UTC (History)
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Screenshot of the pop-up (115.54 KB, image/png)
2025-07-12 21:17 UTC, DrC
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Annotated version of the screenshot, not that one is really needed (282.95 KB, image/png)
2025-07-12 21:26 UTC, DrC
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a totally superfilous bit of context (386.96 KB, image/png)
2025-07-12 21:30 UTC, DrC
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more background on what I was trying to do (447.35 KB, image/png)
2025-07-12 21:47 UTC, DrC
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Description DrC 2025-07-12 21:14:54 UTC
Description:
LO Draw ➡  Add a new shape (rectangle w/ rounded corners) ➡ right click on added shape (e.g. to try and change the corner radius--not sure why this is so hard to find) ➡ Edit style opens up a pop-op "Graphic Styles" menu w/ ~15 entries that lists General, Line, Area, etc.   Normally, I would have expected the window that shows the various options to be adjustable so one could read the text label.  Even after adjusting the pop-up size there is no change at all in the coverage of the menu entries.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.See above
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Actual Results:
See attached

Expected Results:
Being able to read every single word in the menu that someone went to all that trouble to create, or at least be able to adjust the view of the menu, or, if you want to adopt a Microsoft bad practice, put a tiny scroll-bar at the bottom so I can scroll back and forth to read the text (I am totally kidding, please don't do this!  Just make it an adjustable---drag a corner/edge to resize until the text can be read.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
It should have shown the contents of the menu inside the box provided.  It would be a tiny bit of work to calculate if there was sufficient screen space to show all the menu (its pretty skinny and only has 15 items in it, so I would suspect the default should be to have the window that shows the menu entries sized to show all of the text, and then only shrink it down if the screen resolution/space (e.g. if using a tilling DE or on a mobile phone--since I should be able to run a full version of LibreOffice including most Python and Java extensions on even an older Samsung Galaxy S21, right?!?)
Comment 1 DrC 2025-07-12 21:17:55 UTC
Created attachment 201776 [details]
Screenshot of the pop-up

The problem is pretty clear once you see the picture....
Comment 2 DrC 2025-07-12 21:26:08 UTC
Created attachment 201777 [details]
Annotated version of the screenshot, not that one is really needed
Comment 3 DrC 2025-07-12 21:30:51 UTC
Created attachment 201778 [details]
a totally superfilous bit of context

This shows the shape I was attempting to edit and could not figure out how to change the curve radius of the corners to match the background shape (so I could use it for a file folder label).  I opened the shown pop-up menu just by right clicking on the rounded corner rectangle and when with the last option "Edit Style".
Comment 4 DrC 2025-07-12 21:33:34 UTC
Oh, and just FYI, when I chose to edit the position and size of the rounded-corner rectangle, and was hopeful seeing "Slant & Corner Radius" as a tab, the Corner Radius entry box is inactive and clicking on it doesn't change anything.
Comment 5 DrC 2025-07-12 21:47:31 UTC
Created attachment 201779 [details]
more background on what I was trying to do

This just shows matching the corner radius, but w/o any way to force a smaller shape to work.  I am going to end up having to cut-and-paste two halves of this rectangle together--the top and bottom of what is shown as not covered by the red box which isn't an optimal workflow.
Comment 6 V Stuart Foote 2025-07-13 11:30:42 UTC
What scale factor do you have your os/DE? Font seems over size for the LO GUI.

At 1.25 scaling, no issue reading entire UI.

Otherwise, you need to use the main menu View -> Toolbars -> 'Legacy Rectangles' not the Drawing bar's Rectangle or Basic shape rectangle objects.

The "legacy" rectangles will have the radius field for the 'Position and Size' dialog enabled. Of course if your UI is scaled to large, you may not be able to see all the control lables.

Covered in the Ask article, and the Draw Guide.

https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/why-is-corner-radius-greyed-out-for-rectangles-in-draw/10286