Bug 167556 - Provide a count of hidden rows/columns in the "Show Columns" and "Show Rows" contextual menu actions' labels
Summary: Provide a count of hidden rows/columns in the "Show Columns" and "Show Rows" ...
Status: UNCONFIRMED
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Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
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Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Blocks: Calc-Enhancements
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Reported: 2025-07-18 01:13 UTC by Jeff Fortin Tam
Modified: 2025-07-18 01:14 UTC (History)
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Description Jeff Fortin Tam 2025-07-18 01:13:32 UTC
This is a small UX enhancement proposal for Calc, in areas like:

* The contextual menu that shows up when you right-click a selection of row headers (ex: 1 2 3 5) or column headers (ex: A B C D E)

* The "Row" and "Column" menubuttons in the "Layout" section of the tabbed (and tabbed compact) notebookbar, where the same actions are present

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Currently, those menus contain the "Hide Rows" (or "Hide Columns") and "Show Rows" (or "Show Columns") actions.

However, if you have a whole range of rows or columns selected, it would be nice if those actions were labelled more specifically, by including the number of hidden rows/columns in the label. So for example, they could say:

* "Show %d Rows"
* "Show %d Columns"

…where %d is the number of hidden rows/columns that would be unhidden from the selected range. Probably using ngettext for proper plurals support, if LibreOffice uses gettext for translatable strings.


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This was observed with:

Version: 25.2.4.3 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 33e196637044ead23f5c3226cde09b47731f7e27
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.14; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Flatpak
Calc: threaded