Rulers can set to centimeter, millimeter, inches etc. via context menu. Right click the ruler and select how it should look like. This is a single selection from a list and has to use radio buttons therefore. The checkbox indicates that more than one option can be selected, which is not true.
TESTING in Ubuntu 14.04 + LO 4.4.0.2 (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #0) > Rulers can set to centimeter, millimeter, inches etc. via context menu. > Right click the ruler and select how it should look like. This is a single > selection from a list and has to use radio buttons therefore. The checkbox > indicates that more than one option can be selected, which is not true. Hi Heiko, I think the current interface looks pretty reasonable. I don't see any "checkboxes" per se, but just a check next to one item in a list. I don't think the behavior of the current layout would confuse me, but I'm handing this bug over to the UX folks for review. Status -> NEW Component -> ux-advise
Actually, Ruler on the main menu View -> Ruler is a toggle. That same .uno function is also available per module, where additional ruler configuration can be done. E.g. for Writer, Tools -> Options -> LibreOffice Writer -> View Under the View block there are only checkboxes The "Ruler" checkbox overrides the checkboxes for "Horizontal ruler" and "Vertical ruler" by toggling rulers on or off. So, the Ruler widget should be a radio-button rather than a checkbox. Horizontal and Vertical rulers could be either--but checkbox would be more consistent. Attaching two screen clips, one showing the "checkboxe" from the ruler context menu (they are checkboxes rather than radio buttons). The other showing the View panel Ruler widgets for Writer. Changing checkboxes to radio-buttons would be more correct HIG.
Created attachment 112301 [details] checkboxe selection from ruler context menu
Created attachment 112302 [details] ruler checkbox selection from Tools Options View panel
Created attachment 112303 [details] ruler checkbox selection from Tools Options View panel (rev)
I wouldn't change the dropdown in the options dialog into radio buttons. Such a dropdown is the better control for lists with more than two or three alternatives. But of course it's not available in context menus. Thank you Stuart for adding the screenshots.
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #3) > Created attachment 112301 [details] > checkboxe selection from ruler context menu FWIW, unless someone said the word "checkbox" to me, I wouldn't associate this interface with checkboxes - It doesn't have well-defined squares to check - (As is the nature with all context menus,) one can only choose one item before the menu closes, so the concept of selecting more than one item doesn't seem natural But an update is fine with me :-)
Created attachment 112360 [details] ruler context menu Here is the screenshot from my linux mint machine with clearlooks theme. In this screenshot you can clearly see they are checkboxes.
This also happens when you right-click a tab row, and it is due to this commit: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=9995222d1141b326197a387cc7897b3971ce9e9a
I'm sure there was a reason for that, but it utterly escapes me now.
actually the tab rows and the ruler menu are different hunks of code, though both should probably be radio buttons
Caolán McNamara committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=251737f0dd186b0f169f5ba237e1e8c28a320e00 Resolves: fdo#88417 Dropdown for ruler settings should show radio buttons It will be available in 4.5.0. 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.
proposed for 4-4 as well
Caolán McNamara committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-4-4": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=83cb667fe9ad08ccbb3621b982edcb6fa8e4ab38&h=libreoffice-4-4 Resolves: fdo#88417 Dropdown for ruler settings should show radio buttons It will be available in 4.4.1. 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.
Caolán McNamara committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-4-4-0": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=9162fcf25a0661095169ec0c606ee81ffcd5707b&h=libreoffice-4-4-0 Resolves: fdo#88417 Dropdown for ruler settings should show radio buttons 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.
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