39842 – Feature Request: Make Toolbar Box Widths Variable as in Microsoft, Mozilla etc etc.

Bug 39842 - Feature Request: Make Toolbar Box Widths Variable as in Microsoft, Mozilla etc etc.

Summary: Feature Request: Make Toolbar Box Widths Variable as in Microsoft, Mozilla et...

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	LibreOffice
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version: (earliest affected)	3.6.3.2 release
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	medium enhancement
Assignee:	Not Assigned

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Keywords:	needsUXEval

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Blocks:	Toolbars
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Reported:	2011-08-04 13:33 UTC by cgaj
Modified:	2021-04-06 14:38 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

See Also:	81900
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Description cgaj 2011-08-04 13:33:07 UTC

I believe the current behaviour is common to all components of all versions of LibreOffice & OpenOffice.

Many toolbar boxes (Font Name; Font Size; Line Style; Line Width; Line Color; Area Style/Filling etc etc) are fixed width & take up excessive space in toolbars.

Every other application I have used (MS Word; Excel; Firefox etc etc etc) makes the width of these boxes user-adjustable.

Please include the option of adjusting toolbar box widths in LibreOffice ASAP!

Thanks!

Note: I am currently using LibO 3.3.2 in Ubuntu 11.04 but have been complaining about the same behaviour in OOo 3.2.0 in Ubuntu 10.04 & OOo 3.3.0 in XP & all previous versions for as long as I can remember.

Comment 1 cgaj 2011-08-05 00:43:45 UTC

When I refer to Microsoft Office components, I should specify Office 2003 & previous versions.
Office 2010 seems less good!

Comment 2 Björn Michaelsen 2011-12-23 12:27:32 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)

[This is an automated message.]
This bug was filed before the changes to Bugzilla on 2011-10-16. Thus it
started right out as NEW without ever being explicitly confirmed. The bug is
changed to state NEEDINFO for this reason. To move this bug from NEEDINFO back
to NEW please check if the bug still persists with the 3.5.0 beta1 or beta2 prereleases.
Details on how to test the 3.5.0 beta1 can be found at:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugHunting_Session_3.5.0.-1

more detail on this bulk operation: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/RFC-Operation-Spamzilla-tp3607474p3607474.html

Comment 3 cgaj 2011-12-24 09:49:59 UTC

As requested, I checked in LibO 3.5.0 beta2 and there is still no possibility to customize the width of the Toolbar boxes.

So I ask for this Feature Request to have status changed back to NEW & hopefully to be acted on one day...

Comment 4 Ákos Szabó 2012-11-09 06:36:09 UTC

The most annoying is the font dropdown list on the toolbar: with graphite font features, font names can be extremely long. And one can see only part of it even on a wide monitor…

Comment 5 cgaj 2014-02-26 10:53:19 UTC

How did this bug get labelled as FIXED?

I just installed LibO 3.5.7.2 in Ubuntu 12.04LTS & the problem is still there.

I have LibO 4.1.3.2 in Ubuntu 13.10 also & the problem is still there.

Very sad!

Comment 6 Heiko Tietze 2021-04-06 14:38:02 UTC

Undocked toolbars can be resized and become horizontal, vertical, or rectangular. Meanwhile we also have thr Notebookbars that should cover special use cases. More flexibility for the old concepts is taking too much resources from the project => WF (or WFM, given the first part).