Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 16352
Inconsistent pop-up of colour palettes (font color, highlighting, paragraph background)
Last modified: 2005-03-27 11:06:57 UTC
Hi, On some buttons ("font color", "highlighting", "paragraph background",...), how pop-up palette appears ? On "OOo Writer", for pop-up palette, "font color" button or "highlighting" button has to be clicking for a little while. But not for "paragraph background", a quick click is enough. On "OOo Cal", on "font color" button, palette pop-up appears with a quick click. So, what is the best practice for appear pop-up palette ? And why is it different for "OOo Writer" and "OOo Calc" ? And I didn't test with other OOo programs. It should be resolved before final release.
*** Issue 16353 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Also seen on WinXP, German Beta2 The buttons "remember" the last selected value and show them in a "color-bar" A quick click should therefor assign this color to the selection. (=>Same behaviour as in M$-Applikations) Up to now they simply show the color but don't assign it on a single quick click. Click and hold for a little should show the pop-up palette.
confirmed on WinXP, OOo 1.0.3.1 and 1.1beta2. But this is not a bug (nothing 's going bad here). Setting this to enhancement, prio 3. Advice: get people vote for this isue if you want it to be fixed soon.
Be it a bug or an enhancement, one can use it but there are things worth thinking about. For OOo 1.1 it's too late anyway as this is neither regression nor a showstopper. After enabling Help-Extended Tips, the bubble help about these three buttons tell exactly what happens when doing a short click (2x apply selected colour, 1x open palette to choose colour). Not consistent, but the help is correct. The small green arrow on all three tells that a long click will "open something" (=the colour palette for all three). Works. The "bucket icon" after dong a click or selecting a colour is the same for all three. Since "paragraph background" has this bucket on the icon (In SO, not in OOo as the icons are different!) it should be considered to use different "brush/textmarker/bucket/???" icons when "dragging the respective colour into the document". SBA->CJ: As discussed, yours.
On OOo 1.1RC3, Witer, Calc, Presentation, Drawing (didn't test HTML, Formulas) Found those functions with pop-up : Writer Application/AutoPilot Menu Application/New Controls/Show form functions Drawing/Show draw functions Edit/Edit auto text Edit/Paste Edit/Redo Edit/Undo Format/Arrange object Format/Arrow style Format/Background Format/Borders Format/Change anchor Format/Font color Format/Font color (selection) Format/Hightlighting Frame/Borders Frame/Line color (of the border) Frame/Line style Insert/Insert fields Insert/Insert Insert/Formula bar/Formula Insert/Insert Frame manually Insert/Insert Object Insert/Insert Section Insert/Insert Table Modify/Filter Table/Borders View/Page preview: Multiples pages Calc Application/AutoPilot Menu Application/New Controls/Show form functions Drawing/Show draw functions Edit/Paste Edit/Redo Edit/Undo Format/Arrange object Format/Arrow style Format/Background Format/Borders Format/Font color Frame/Line color (of the border) Frame/Line style Insert/Insert Insert/Insert Cells Modify/Filter View/Insert Object Presentation Application/AutoPilot Menu Application/New Controls/Show form functions Document/Alignment Drawing/3D objects (selection) Drawing/Connector (selection) Drawing/Curve (selection) Drawing/Ellipse (selection) Drawing/Insert Drawing/Lines and Arrows Drawing/Rectangle (selection) Drawing/Text (selection) Edit/Paste Edit/Redo Edit/Undo Format/Arrow Style Format/Font color Modify/Arrange Modify/Effects Modify/Filter Preview/Zoom (selection) Drawing Application/AutoPilot Menu Application/New Controls/Show form functions Document/Alignment Drawing/3D objects (selection) Drawing/Connector (selection) Drawing/Curve (selection) Drawing/Ellipse (selection) Drawing/Insert Drawing/Lines and Arrows Drawing/Rectangle (selection) Drawing/Text (selection) Edit/Paste Edit/Redo Edit/Undo Format/Arrow Style Format/Font color Modify/Arrange Modify/Effects Modify/Filter Preview/Zoom (selection) Note : Tollbars shouldn't be the same for all applications. What if the applications are separate executable file ?
Reassigned to Bettina
Adjusting the different timing at opening PIs. Considered for 'Q'.
I tested OOo 1.9.m47. With the new toolbar specification, this problem is on the way to be resolved. Found a little problem on Writer : Click on Background Color doesn't work, or maybe doesn't keep the color... Maybe, I'm wrong...
There are many improvements due to the new toolbar design. So this issue is IMO completely resolved in 680m88. -> closing as "WORKSFORME"
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