Bug 168596 - Not enough Format menu items are grayed out when a table cell is selected
Summary: Not enough Format menu items are grayed out when a table cell is selected
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Impress (show other bugs)
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(earliest affected)
unspecified
Hardware: All All
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Blocks: ImpressDraw-Tables
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Reported: 2025-09-28 22:41 UTC by Eyal Rozenberg
Modified: 2025-09-29 08:57 UTC (History)
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Screenshot (32.74 KB, image/png)
2025-09-29 08:27 UTC, Heiko Tietze
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Screenshot of Impress 26.2: single cell selected + Format menu open (69.98 KB, image/png)
2025-09-29 08:32 UTC, Eyal Rozenberg
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Description Eyal Rozenberg 2025-09-28 22:41:09 UTC
Insert some table in Impress, and select a single cell. Now open the Format menu. See something strange? Yeah you do... a bunch of items are not grayed-out, when they really should be:

Should certainly be grayed out:

* Shadow
* Distribute selection (note all items of submenu are grayed-out)
* Flip (note all items of submenu are grayed-out)
* Convert (note all items of submenu are grayed-out)
* Group shapes (note all items of submenu are grayed-out)
* Image submenu and several entries on it
* Align objects and its submenu items (they apply to the whole table)


Should possibly be grayed out:

* Theme (applies to the whole presentation, not to the selection)
* Text along path (what would that do to a table cell?)
* Arrange 
* Align Objects (what currently happens is that this aligns the _table_, not the individual cell)
Comment 1 Heiko Tietze 2025-09-29 08:27:44 UTC
Created attachment 203014 [details]
Screenshot

Cannot confirm with

Version: 25.8.1.1 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 580(Build:1)
CPU threads: 32; OS: Linux 6.16; UI render: default; VCL: kf6 (cairo+xcb)
Locale: de-DE (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
25.8.1-3
Calc: threaded

Keep in mind that tables are objects like shapes.
Comment 2 Eyal Rozenberg 2025-09-29 08:29:57 UTC
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #1)
> Keep in mind that tables are objects like shapes.

Well, in some ways, while in some ways they aren't...  but the thing is, this bug is about a table _cell_, which is different than a whole table. I should probably open a similar bug about tables :-)
Comment 3 Eyal Rozenberg 2025-09-29 08:32:53 UTC
Created attachment 203015 [details]
Screenshot of Impress 26.2: single cell selected + Format menu open
Comment 4 Heiko Tietze 2025-09-29 08:34:51 UTC
Without the version information it will be not easy for QA to replicate the issue.

About cell content context I could agree that it's a different situation.
Comment 5 Eyal Rozenberg 2025-09-29 08:53:30 UTC
Oh, sorry, I am seeing this with:

Version: 26.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 0d986755e4153230670c820dc52cc40cd72dfa87
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.12; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-IL (en_IL); UI: en-US

and with:

Version: 25.8.1.1 (X86_64)
Build ID: 54047653041915e595ad4e45cccea684809c77b5
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.12; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-IL (en_IL); UI: en-US
Comment 6 Eyal Rozenberg 2025-09-29 08:54:21 UTC
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #4)
> About cell content context I could agree that it's a different situation.

So, can I invalidate your screenshot?
Comment 7 Heiko Tietze 2025-09-29 08:57:25 UTC
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #6)
> (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #4)
> > About cell content context I could agree that it's a different situation.
> So, can I invalidate your screenshot?
The menu state does not change whether the table is selected or a cell and menu items are disabled, which my screenshot shows for kf6 (KDE/Breeze Dark).