In Writer, there are 12 sections in the statusbar: 1) page number 2) word count 3) page style 4) character language 5) edit mode 6) selection style 7) document modify status 8) digital signature 9) insert field 10) page view style (1 page, 2 page, book) 11) zoom slider (zoom out, slider, zoom in) 12) zoom percentage Of these entries, 8 entries have double click functionality (5 of which only function with double click), 5 entries have right-click context menus (2 of which left-click also opens the context menu), and 2 function with the left or right click (numbers 10 and 11). Below is the list with their click functionality: 1) page number - dbl click dlg 2) word count - dbl click dlg 3) page style - dbl click dlg, right context menu 4) character language - left/right context menu 5) edit mode - dbl click (overwrite mode), single click (insert mode) 6) selection style - left/right context menu 7) document modify status - dbl click save 8) digital signature - dbl click dlg, right context menu 9) insert field - dbl click dlg 10) page view style - left/right click 11) zoom slider - left/right click 12) zoom percentage - dbl click dlg, right context menu To fix this setup, i'd like to suggest that one of the following approaches be used to unify the behaviour. 1) single click context menu, double click dialog/action - with this behaviour, single left or right click only brings up the context menu, if there is one, and double click is left for the opening of dialogs and execution of actions (change edit mode, save document). 2) single click context menu, single click dialog/action - this behaviour has entries with a context menu open context menus on single left or right click and open dialogs on double click, while entries that only have double click dialog/action also function with a single left or right click. 3) left click dialog/action, right click context menu - this behaviour isnt departing much from how it is presently and only adds that when an entry has a double click dialog/action, that a single left click also acts like a double click and context menus only appear with right-click.
(In reply to comment #0) > 2) single click context menu, single click dialog/action - this behaviour > has entries with a context menu open context menus on single left or right > click and open dialogs on double click, while entries that only have double > click dialog/action also function with a single left or right click. I vote for this option, because any double-click in any UI is IMO one click too many.
+1
(In reply to Adolfo Jayme from comment #2) > +1 So which of the three solutions do you like?
(In reply to Jay Philips from comment #3) > So which of the three solutions do you like? Sorry for not being clear. I think 2) is simpler, so I’d vote for it, as Owen did.
I would also prefer 2)
Samuel Mehrbrodt committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=0280a35b20448b7f678b6e150cbc2564da4910ce fdo#82707 Unify click behavior in Statusbar (Writer) It will be available in 4.4.0. 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.
We discussed this in the IRC and agreed that #3 is a better option. Double click actions just seem wrong for the statusbar. Adolfo, Andy, are you ok with this?
Yes we had discussed this in the IRC and we felt it would be best to have left clicking buttons and right clicking for context menus. Any thoughts, Owen, Adolfo, Andy?
FWIW, this change broke CppunitTest_sw_mailmerge, see e.g. http://tinderbox.libreoffice.org/cgi-bin/gunzip.cgi?tree=MASTER&brief-log=1415551201.32129
I couldn't reproduce the failure locally, but pushed something that hopefully fixes it: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=123e49d6e307c41a5f59878335563ad7203b23ff
Maybe you had a --disable-dbgutil build (default) and the problem was specific to --enable-dbgutil? Just guessing. The fix helped, thanks for the quick reaction!
> We discussed this in the IRC It’s fine for me, but I have a question... Why did you “privately” settled on something without trying to reach with the rest of people involved, by using more open spaces, such as this bug or the UX-Advise list? Remember that not everyone has the time to be on IRC... Well, whatever. Now, the status bar items should visually react on mouse hover.
It would be great if we could disable the left-click on the character language and selection style sections to completely unify the behaviour.
This bug fix comes with LibreOffice 4.4 (release notes https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.4) Click behaviour was unified so that left-click results in an action or dialog appearing and right-click results in the display of a context menu. Status should be changed, I think
The status of the bug should be changed by competent people.
Looks like the issue of comment 13 is still outstanding, suppressing left click opening of context menu for 4 & 6 (character language, selection style). Samuel, Jay are you still poking at it?
Samuel was poking at this, but he hasnt been around in a while.
I'm opening this task for others as I don't have any time to devote to LO currently, sorry.
Adolfo Jayme Barrientos committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=5f33745c1d6750126e53a02b2a95355a3e5b16a0 tdf#105669 tdf#82707 A single click in the status bar is now enough It will be available in 5.4.0. 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.
Is it intended that a right-click on Single-page view/Multiple-page view/Book view does the same action as a left-click? I would assume that a right-click opens a context menu. If there is no context menu, then no action should be started. Actions after right-clicks are a little bit scary.
A polite ping to Adolfo Jayme Barrientos: is this bug fixed? if so, could you please close it as RESOLVED FIXED ? Thanks
Please add keyword 'needsUXEval' and CC 'libreoffice-ux-advise@lists.freedesktop.org' if input from UX is needed.
(In reply to Xisco Faulí from comment #21) > A polite ping to Adolfo Jayme Barrientos: is this bug fixed? if so, could > you please close it as RESOLVED FIXED ? Thanks /setting fixed