Tools/Autocorrect options/Replace from the OOo era the UI of the replacement table has always had a different width of the 'Replace' and 'With' fields, the 'Replace' field being much shorted than the 'With' field. see attachment 82595 [details] I would enlarge the width of the "Replace" field to make it at least long as the "with". IMHO there's no advantage in this asimmetry: they should have the same size.
this is a spin-off of Bug 67040 which is about allowing manual resize of the entire replacement table. the current request is different and it's about changing the static width of 'Replace' & 'With' fields which is actually asimmetric. I add UI expert to CC list. @Kendy is this something you can take a look?
I also add Andras Timar to CC list since he did a nice fix on a somewhat related Autocorrect UI issue (see Bug 64652 )
Valuable enhancement request. Set status to NEW. best regards. JBF
we can make them the same width trivially
Caolan McNamara committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=8d464a7423ac8f3eb30eb80a0e5041989a4cc2da Resolves: fdo#74070 make replace and with fields the same width 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.
Created attachment 93029 [details] new autocorrect table 4.3.0dev thank for the fix Caolan!!! as you can see from the screenshot this is much better than before. being a trivial and apparently safe fix I suggest backporting to 4.2.1
just a little reminder... any chance this easy fix could be pushed to the 4.2.x branch?
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/8109
Caolan McNamara committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-4-2": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=a05e22067a167b0aa41ffdad0d061371811a177d&h=libreoffice-4-2 Resolves: fdo#74070 make replace and with fields the same width It will be available in LibreOffice 4.2.3. 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.
thanks Caolan. VERIFIED in LibO 4.2.3.3 under Win7x64