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:
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3.6.3.2 release
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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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)
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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)
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).