Bug 83659 - EDITING: Bullet list management toolbar buttons not active in text frame with manually started bulleted list
Summary: EDITING: Bullet list management toolbar buttons not active in text frame with...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Impress (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
Inherited From OOo
Hardware: Other All
: medium normal
Assignee: Maxim Monastirsky
URL:
Whiteboard: target:6.2.0
Keywords: needsUXEval
: 119072 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: Impress-Outline-View
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Reported: 2014-09-09 10:20 UTC by Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired)
Modified: 2018-08-24 13:52 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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3 bullets added but toolbar buttons not active (51.01 KB, image/png)
2014-09-09 10:20 UTC, Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired)
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Description Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired) 2014-09-09 10:20:17 UTC
Created attachment 105962 [details]
3 bullets added but toolbar buttons not active

Steps:
1) Open Impress
2) Put mouse cursor in textbox and insert a bullet
3) Type in some text and press enter to get a second bullet
4) The promote, demote, move up and move down buttons dont work as it thinks each bullet point is of its own set

Tested in 4.3.2 and master.
Comment 1 Alex Thurgood 2014-09-09 10:21:31 UTC
Confirming also on Mac OSX 10.9.4 with my master build
Comment 2 Cor Nouws 2014-09-09 11:04:57 UTC
Key board shortcuts (TAB and SHIFT-+TAB  at the beginning of a line) still do work.
Comment 3 Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired) 2014-09-09 11:31:50 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> Key board shortcuts (TAB and SHIFT-+TAB  at the beginning of a line) still
> do work.

The keyboard shortcuts still dont make the individual bullets into a bullet list.

What did you mean by 'with manually started bulleted list' in the summary?
Comment 4 Alex Thurgood 2014-09-09 12:36:36 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> Key board shortcuts (TAB and SHIFT-+TAB  at the beginning of a line) still
> do work.

They  don't on Mac.
Comment 5 Cor Nouws 2014-09-09 13:20:14 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)

> The keyboard shortcuts still dont make the individual bullets into a bullet
> list.

Why not ? :)

> What did you mean by 'with manually started bulleted list' in the summary?

Usually one takes a master slide that has a frame with an outline / bulleted lines.
Comment 6 Cor Nouws 2014-09-09 13:20:57 UTC
Hmm superfluous :)
Comment 7 Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired) 2014-09-09 21:52:02 UTC
(In reply to comment #5)
> Why not ? :)

To me, a bullet list is a group of bullet entries that are connected together, which makes them a list. Not being able to move entries up and down, shows they are individual bullet entries, one after the other, and not a list.

> Usually one takes a master slide that has a frame with an outline / bulleted
> lines.

Yes i had noticed that some of the slide layouts had bulleted lines, after my last response.
Comment 8 QA Administrators 2015-10-14 19:58:14 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 9 Luke Picciau 2016-01-11 12:10:53 UTC
Tested on Ubuntu 15.10 with Libreoffice 5.0.3.2 and still have the bug.
Comment 10 QA Administrators 2017-05-22 13:20:25 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 11 Maxim Monastirsky 2018-08-07 20:25:11 UTC
*** Bug 119072 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 12 andreas_k 2018-08-07 21:35:21 UTC
as written in bug 119072 you have to use outline text box instead of text box to get bullet points.

1. how do I get outline text box in draw? what's the uno command for it?
2. In textbox I can have bullets, I also can promote / demote the bullet points by keyboard the only issue is that the sidebar buttons didn't work.

From a UX point of view have two different text boxes aren't usefull. In addition as normal textboxes can do nearly "everything"
Comment 13 Maxim Monastirsky 2018-08-08 18:44:15 UTC
Turns out that the only thing that needed to make these commands work, is to remove one explicit check for outline box from the code. And this also enables these commands in tables. I submitted this quick patch to gerrit, in hope that it won't have any nasty side effects:

https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/58748/

Unfortunately, I noticed that lists inside non-outline textboxes have some issues with the Impress outline view, but this problem present also w/o my patch, and probably deserves a separate bug report.
Comment 14 Commit Notification 2018-08-08 20:48:38 UTC
Maxim Monastirsky committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=0a1a4ffb4f87adff7fbbbc60202b6a0e42fedd0c

tdf#83659 Enable outline commands for text boxes and tables

It will be available in 6.2.0.

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.
Comment 15 Maxim Monastirsky 2018-08-24 13:52:10 UTC
list buttons now seem to work in textboxes and tables in Impress/Draw, so let's call this fixed. Please report remaining issues in separate bugs.