Description: Vertical tabs: inconsistent look. Label next to icon; label below icon Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Writer 2. Insert a table 3. Open table Properties 4. Close dialog 5. Compare with Paragraph -> Paragraph properties Actual Results: Large icon with label below for Table properties Small icon with label right of icon for Paragraph properties Expected Results: I find Table properties nicer to look at. I have more of a tendency to say the list being 'unsorted' with Paragraph properties; because not alphbetically Icons are oversized in Table properties, at least for my taste. If there should be label present at all is another question (or only a mouse over tooltip). But well that would require really self-explaining icons; not sure if thats realistic Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: Version: 26.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: ccb3362a71f88213615bd39bd819ab8ec20d86cc CPU threads: 8; OS: macOS 14.7.4; UI render: Skia/Metal; VCL: osx Locale: nl-NL (nl_NL.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded
Created attachment 202618 [details] Screenshot
Created attachment 202619 [details] Screenshot Paragraph dialog
Think there is a distinction to be made between those vertical tab (VT) dialogs with "dense" counts of items like Paragraph compared to VT dialogs with more vertical space and fewer items like Tables--some threshold of visible button counts and vertical space that controls label placement and icon size. The UI does not suffer from this inconsistency so long as it is maintained across the VT dialogs. Actually this is no different than previous Tab layouts where we split the UI into rows of tabs. More dense dialogs getting additional rows to hold and shifting the active rows. Addition of Icons now for each tab control in the vertical oriented column is fine. And so probably is allowing the icon size to respond to density of the dialog. bug 167862 was opened against VT < 4 controls, so guess we actually have three flavors of VT to consider. Would UI be improved by limiting all the VT dialogs to like sized icon assignments for "consistency"? I don't think it would matter, but we would not want the size of the dialog adjust to the density of tabs. The additional vertical space for low density VT dialogs needs to be accommodated. So allowing the size of the icon and the positioning of the label text to respond is probably the better response. IMHO => NAB
We show icons on top of the label for dialogs with six or less tabs - proposed and accepted, or at least not rejected, in bug 167084. The implementation is done manually with a special flag in the UI file and larger icons per code.