In Writer and Calc, if you draw an object from the drawing toolbar, the 'Extrusion On/Off' button in the toolbar doesnt activate, as it does in Impress and Draw.
I confirm bug under Win7x64 using 4.4.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: 3e2bd1e4022e25b77bcc8eba5e02c1adc57008a1 TinderBox: Win-x86@42, Branch:master, Time: 2014-10-16_01:04:13
I'm afraid that the problem might be in the underlying implementation, not in the button. Actually not many people know that LO (and the ODF format) has two ways to represent shapes. There are simple shapes, and there are custom shapes. Now if you draw a Rectangle from the drawing toolbar you won't get this button activated, but if you draw a Rectangle from the Basic Shapes drop-down you will. You can notice two additional differences: The simple Rectangle has green handlers when selected, but the one from the drop-down has blue ones. You can also save documents with both and compare content.xml. The simple one is saved using the draw:rect tag, and the one from the drop-down is saved using draw:custom-shape tag. Now, in Writer/Calc the drawing toolbar hosts the simple shapes, while in Impress/Draw the custom shapes. You can compare the .uno commands: In Writer for Rectangle we use .uno:Rect, but in Impress/Draw we use .uno:BasicShapes.rectangle. (Note that you can get the simple Rectangle in Impress/Draw as well, by activating the Rectangles toolbar.)
Thanks Maxim for the explanation. For me, its nice when LO has uniformity in its apps, so things act the same between apps and users dont see different behaviours. So what is your take on the issue?
(In reply to Jay Philips from comment #3) > So what is your take on the issue? Well, we might consider using the custom shapes commands in Writer/Calc as well, and move the basic shapes to a dedicated toolbar (for advanced users that care about the underlying ODF), the same way we have "Rectangles" and "Circles and Ovals" toolbars in Impress. But before doing any change, we need to carefully study the pros/cons of basic shapes, to make sure we don't get a bug report saying "Why something X worked with a rectangle in the past, but doesn't work anymore".
This button does not work in the Draw (for which it is one of the main functions!) in version 4.3.6.2, but it is active in 4.4.2.1! At the same time using the toolbar buttons 3d-settings disappears, but that's another bug (for 4.4.2.1 and more). Resume: 1. confirm bug for LO 4.3.6.2 2. this bug not reproduced in LO 4.4.2.1. Fixed miraculously?
I fixed this as part of the 5.0 release.