Created attachment 114655 [details] screenshot The chart element selector control (.uno:ChartElementSelector) in the formatting toolbar in Chart is way to large for its content. It would be useful to reduce its size by half.
This sounds in principle reasonable for me (however a decrease of half seems for me to be too much). But if a LO translation or Data Series name would be longer, would then the width of this drop-down list be increased/adapted?
The control within the toolbar would be of a fixed size, while if the size of the elements in the drop down are larger than the size of the control, i'd assume that the drop down's size would increase to fit the text.
Would be useful to know if this is an easy hack or not from the devs and if so, some code pointers.
I do not think, that it is a good idea to reduce the width. The list can contain the items DataSeries 'myLegend' DataSeries 'myLegend' Trend Line (myTrendlineTitle) DataSeries 'myLegend' Equation (<chosen Trendlinetyp>) During selection the width expands, so selecting is no problem with a smaller width. But I think, that the user should be able to see, what item is currently selected. And therefore the current width is needed, because the three kind of "DataSeries" entries do not differ in the first characters.
Created attachment 114752 [details] cropped entry in chart element drop down The current width of the toolbar control can hold ~28 characters, while the majority of entries in the drop down are less that 18 characters long. This same issue is present in the font name drop down, as the control can display about ~16 characters and you can have fonts with similar beginnings that look exactly the same when the drop down is closed. If a user decides to use the chart element drop down to select an entry, he/she already knows what is selected and it also shows that selection on the chart, so there isnt a possibility that a user wouldnt be able to distinguish what is currently selected because text in the chart element is cropped. The chart element drop down also doesnt list all the possible things that can be selected, like when you have a pie chart and it doesnt show the data point entries, so a user will need to click on the chart to get full access to all possible things to format in a chart. Maybe cropping by half is to aggressive but think we can crop atleast 15 percent and still maintain the corner cases with Data Series.
Migrating Whiteboard tags to Keywords: (needsDevEval) [NinjaEdit]
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Reduced the width to 60 in patch https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/48896/. The user can still use ridiculous long texts in the dropdown (Data Series "Once upon a time..."). We should deal with this issue in another ticket as it affects all lists and dropdowns.
heiko tietze committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=2192f72e78ce0afeecd40c03f3ad915c7199bf39 tdf#90487 Size of chart series dropdown It will be available in 6.1.0. 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.
Width reduced by 17% (=75)