Bug 169763 - Style preview box should not have labels
Summary: Style preview box should not have labels
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
6.4.0.3 release
Hardware: All All
: medium minor
Assignee: Not Assigned
URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks: Style-Preview-Box
  Show dependency treegraph
 
Reported: 2025-11-30 20:20 UTC by Eyal Rozenberg
Modified: 2025-12-03 14:09 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

See Also:
Crash report or crash signature:


Attachments
Style preview box in LO 26.2 nightly and in Collabora Office desktop 25.4.7.2 (72.91 KB, image/png)
2025-11-30 20:20 UTC, Eyal Rozenberg
Details

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.
Description Eyal Rozenberg 2025-11-30 20:20:59 UTC
Created attachment 204348 [details]
Style preview box in LO 26.2 nightly and in Collabora Office desktop 25.4.7.2

In the style preview box, each style has its name rendered in itself, i.e. in the style being previewed; and below that, the name appears again, in the UI label font.

That's just a waste of space. Instead, we should only have the rendered style names. The tooltips will let the user see the full style name, in case it doesn't fit the rendering area (right now, the tooltip says "style preview" - not useful information). I could make that a separate bug or we could have this bug track both issues.

The benefit is clear: More styles rendered in the area available - two rows of styles, for real.

Note that Collabora office does this (see screenshot) and MS Office does this.
Comment 1 Heiko Tietze 2025-12-03 08:13:36 UTC
Duplicate of bug 169764
Comment 2 Eyal Rozenberg 2025-12-03 14:08:41 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 3 Eyal Rozenberg 2025-12-03 14:09:15 UTC
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #1)

the question of how to place rendered text in a rectangle (bug 169764) is independent of whether there's a label below that rectangle or not (this bug).