Bug 45702 - UI: RTL Direction and Asian Text orientation buttons can not be hidden
Summary: UI: RTL Direction and Asian Text orientation buttons can not be hidden
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 33356
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
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3.4.5 release
Hardware: Other All
: medium minor
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Reported: 2012-02-06 07:17 UTC by Tiger-Heli
Modified: 2012-09-20 07:09 UTC (History)
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Description Tiger-Heli 2012-02-06 07:17:18 UTC 
Problem description: There is a minor bug on the Formatting Toolbar - the "Text Direction From Left To Right" and "Text Direction From Top To Bottom" buttons cannot be hidden.  You can uncheck the checkboxes for them and change the order of appearance, but they are still shown.  The visible buttons menu correctly reflects this - they are grayed out regardless of any changes you make.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Right-click on Format Toolbar.
2. Select Customize Toolbar.
3. Remove checkmarks from items above.
4. Nothing happens.

Current behavior: Items can be changed in sort order, but cannot be hidden.  

Expected behavior: Items should be able to be hidden.

Platform (if different from the browser): LibreOffice Portable 3.4.5 OOO340m1 Build 502
              
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20111221 Firefox/9.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.6.1
Comment 1 Urmas 2012-02-06 07:24:25 UTC 
And why would someone want them hidden?
Comment 2 Tiger-Heli 2012-02-06 07:36:48 UTC 
Reason 1 - They are pretty useless.  "Text Direction Left to Right" is the default.  "Text Direction Top To Bottom" could be useful, but the button does a 270-degree rotation instead of a 90-degree rotation.  I rarely use it, when I do, I want 90-degrees, and when I want that, it's simple enough to go to Format Cells without extra clutter on the menu.

Reason 2 - If the INTENT was that they couldn't be hidden, then they shouldn't have checkboxes next to them for show/hide - otherwise, it appears as a bug.

Thanks!
Comment 3 Urmas 2012-02-06 07:51:13 UTC 
As a workaround, you can switch Far East language support off (Tools/Options/language settings/Languages).
Comment 4 Tiger-Heli 2012-02-06 08:13:28 UTC 
Indeed - that does work - I never would have guessed that as there is nothing to indicate those buttons are related to Far East language support.

Anyway - Thank you!!!
Comment 5 Urmas 2012-09-20 07:09:33 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 33356 ***