In Writer, the Background tab (?) of the Paragraph dialog behaves unlike the other tabs in the window. Screencast at http://screencast.com/t/xY7yxoUD
Confirmed in LibreOffice 4.1.0.1 on Win7 x64. As far as functionality concerned behavior is normal but yes, it looks odd. Regrouping tabs in two rows in a way that the Background tab is not the only one in its row should fix the odd look.
So the "odd" behaviour is that the second row of tabs actually has only one entry, which leads to behaviour which is not intuitive. A possible solution would be to either ensure that each row has at least two entries, or even better, distribute them ~evenly. @Caolan: Easy Hack maybe, with a few code pointers?
code pointers: Rectangle TabControl::ImplGetTabRect( sal_uInt16 nItemPos, long nWidth, long nHeight ) in vcl/source/control/tabctrl.cxx seems to be a good starting point: http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/vcl/source/control/tabctrl.cxx#344
Stefano Facchini committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=fa9a2aaa2246e6eb0665d36aa7c6c75fd31c4e3e fdo#66435: distribute tabs more evenly across rows The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Caolan McNamara committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=b224582aa3e7f0971035603515cf9c0e54ef299d Related: fdo#66435 enhance decker-wrap using Minimum raggedness algo The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
all done now
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