Issue 58163

Summary:

Context menus aren't context-specific (enough)

Product:

General

Reporter:

joachimdurchholz <jo>

Component:

chart

Assignee:

sgautier.ooo

Status:

CLOSED FIXED

QA Contact:

issues@graphics <issues>

Severity:

Trivial

Priority:

CC:

IngridvdM, issues, tony.galmiche.ooo

Version:

3.3.0 or older (OOo)

Keywords:

usability

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Windows 2000

URL:

http://specs.openoffice.org/chart/ChartContextMenu.odt

Issue Type:

ENHANCEMENT

Latest Confirmation in:

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Developer Difficulty:

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Attachments:

Description	Flags
TCS Chart Context Menu	none

Description joachimdurchholz 2005-11-19 15:07:25 UTC

The context menus for the subcomponents of Chart don't offer enough variation.
This gives not enough clues about what subcomponent the user is actually
accessing with the context menu, so he's unsure about whether he's going to
modify the intended subcomponent or not. (Listing the subcomponent's name in the
dialog title isn't enough. It's a step later, and dialog titles are customarily
ignores. Well, *I* ignored the title and didn't find out that it would give me
the desired clue until I started to investigate deeply enough to write this
series of issue reports.)

Changed that could be useful to fix this:

1) Remove the "diagram wall" and "diagram area" entries from the context menus.
The settings behind these menu entries properly belong to the Object Properties
entry of the diagram wall and diagram area, respectively.

2) Don't say "Object Properties" as first entry. Say "X Axis properties", "Main
title properties", etc. instead.

3) Place some or all of the tab titles from the subcomponent's Object Properties
dialog in the context menu. That should open the Object Properties dialog with
the corresponding tab already selected.

Comment 1 kla 2005-11-21 10:15:42 UTC

-> Iha: Maybe it's help to declare the Context menus structure.

Comment 2 IngridvdM 2005-11-24 15:36:35 UTC

Yes, accepted.

Comment 3 bjoern.milcke 2006-06-23 14:04:42 UTC

Changed Target to 2.x

Comment 4 bjoern.milcke 2006-06-23 14:51:13 UTC

back to later

Comment 5 IngridvdM 2008-07-22 14:21:57 UTC

reset to new

Comment 6 IngridvdM 2009-08-07 16:52:01 UTC

The context menu was reworked completely within CWS chartuseability01.
All details can be found in the specification:
http://specs.openoffice.org/chart/ChartContextMenu.odt

Regarding this issue
1) The entries "diagram wall" and "diagram area" have been removed somewhere in
the past already.
2) The entry "Object Properties" has been replaced by something more
descriptive. The offered command now shows the name of the affected object. So
it say for example 'Format Legend...', 'Format Title...' or 'Format Major
Grid...' instead of only 'Object Properties...'. There is no distinction between
x-axis and y-axis for example or the between the different types of titles just
to keep the translation effort a little bit lower. Lets see how this works.
3) Single entries to open each single tab of the properties dialog directly have
not been offered. Within the new context menu there is offered access to several
child and 'sister-elements' and offering each tab page as an own entry would
have been too much. If you still think that can fit anyhow into the new
structure and should be done please submit a separate issue. Thanks!

Comment 7 IngridvdM 2009-08-26 13:06:54 UTC

Sophie, please verify this enhancement in CWS chartuseability01.
When selecting different elements within a chart the first entry in the context
menu does open the properties dialog for the selected element. This menu entry
now should not be named 'Object Properties...'  anymore but instead it should
contain the name of the selected element - for example it should be named
'Format Legend...', 'Format Title...', 'Format Axis...' or 'Format Major
Grid...'. All the possible menu entries are listed in the new context menu
specification:
http://specs.openoffice.org/chart/ChartContextMenu.odt
Thanks! Ingrid

Comment 8 sgautier.ooo 2009-09-08 09:15:58 UTC

Verified in CWS chartuseability01 - Sophie

Comment 9 sgautier.ooo 2009-09-08 15:18:59 UTC

Attaching TCS Chart Context Menu - Sophie

Comment 10 sgautier.ooo 2009-09-08 15:19:43 UTC

Created attachment 64615 [details]
TCS Chart Context Menu

Comment 11 sgautier.ooo 2009-10-22 15:40:02 UTC

Verified in OOO320m2 - Closing - Sophie