After drawing a line and still having it selected I cannot change the color. Selecting a different color form the drop-down in the tool bar does not change the color. Line color stays at the default blue.
tested under Win8.1 x64 using LibO 4.4.3.2 and 4.4.5.1 I can change the color line just clicking on the "line color" dropdowm menu are you sure you are using that icon and not the "fill color" dropdown menu which is intended for shapes? I set status to WORKSFORME feel free to reopen if you still see the bug.
tommy27 - you are right, I chose the incorrect control. This is not a bug as it works as designed. I guess the confusion on my part is that the shape color selection is quite prominent as opposed to the line color selection. Might be worthwhile to turn the line color selector into a color picker drop-down and put a text label on it.