It would be useful to have menu items for inserting shapes and textboxes. The entry to insert shapes would simply activate the drawing toolbar (.uno:InsertDraw), as presently its only accessible through the toolbar and some users will miss it in the toolbar. The entry for textbox would execute .uno:DrawText, so a user could easily draw a textbox without having to open the drawing toolbar, where it is the second most used button. Here is how other word processor menus look for these two items. Google Docs: Insert > Drawing... iWork Pages: Insert > Shapes > [submenu] Insert > Text Box WordPerfect Insert > Shapes... Insert > Text Box Word 2003: Insert > Picture > AutoShapes Insert > Text Box WPS Writer: Insert > Text Box
Hi Samuel, Did you mistakenly press fixed over pressing NEW?
Yeah sorry...
ok, let's put it back to NEW. I agree with this enhancement request.
So we have tooltips 'Show Draw Functions' for .uno:InsertDraw and 'Text' for .uno:DrawText and unfortunately these arent suitable for the insert menu. I think 'Text Box' is fine for .uno:DrawText, but not sure what to use for .uno:InsertDraw. Here are some suggestions, so let me know what you guys think. 1) Insert > Drawing... 2) Insert > Draw Shapes... 3) Insert > Draw Shapes/Objects... 4) Insert > Drawing Shapes... 5) Insert > Drawing Shapes/Objects...
Forgot to include these. :D 6) Insert > Shapes... 7) Insert > Shapes/Objects...
Yousuf Philips committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=82dcce9dc6e2b598b130179631e87342a656e22c fdo#86035 added menu items for shapes and text box and did small rearrangement 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.
Hi Jay, Actually .uno:InsertDraw doesn't work at all when it's in a menu, because it depends on a Toolbox controller to work. This must be resolved somehow, or this change must be reverted.
Hi Maxim, Thanks for catching that. Unfortunately i dont have the skills to fix that and if it doesnt get fixed, then i'll just put in a Shapes submenu with a few shapes in it (line, rectangle, ellipse, polygon).
Yousuf Philips committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-4-4": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=f21951b46895f5403ab5e760d5e16c09d890ecb5&h=libreoffice-4-4 fdo#86035 removed shapes and textbox from writer web as they dont function It will be available in 4.4.0.0.beta2. 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.
Yousuf Philips committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-4-4": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=cad153e36297f0d1e8f70e702441baab054cfc88&h=libreoffice-4-4 fdo#86035 removed uno:InsertDraw and added shapes submenu to writer It will be available in 4.4.0.0.beta2. 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.
Yousuf Philips committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-4-4": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=c2eb55ba12a792ab5142c416ffdf65619ce090dc&h=libreoffice-4-4 fdo#86035 impress and draw use .uno:Text and not .uno:DrawText It will be available in 4.4.0.0.beta2. 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.
The commands Insert > Text Box Insert > Shapes > Line Insert > Shapes > Rectangle Insert > Shapes > Ellipse Insert > Shapes > Polygon all work (on Windows 8.1).