Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 18101
application background cannot be changed
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:41:47 UTC
I have got OOo1.1RC2 English on Win98. In the drawingmodul the application background is white instead of grey and it cannot be changed via tools->options->appearance.
The white background is intended to be white. The thought behind this was, that it is more likely in Draw to place objects beneath the drawing area while the document is in construction. Do you mean that there is no option to change the color in tools/options/appearance/draw or does nothing happen when you change the color under tools/options/appearance/General/document background? Thanks for your help.
"... is intended to be white" - that is not good. Especially when you have zoomed in and get accidentally out off the drawing area, you will not notice this and loose orientation. What do you mean by "place objects beneath the drawing area"? If you mean that they lay beside the drawing area, why should a white background be better than a grey one? "no option to change" means, that changings have no effect on the application background of the drawing-modul. In all other modules it works fine. I believe, it is a defect, when such changing has no effect. If an user likes a white application background, he will choose it. But it is not correct, to have exact one module, where the user is prevented to change it at all.
Set to new.
Now I see what you mean. A white background is better than a grey background because it is a neutral color. You can work on objects outside the doc and than place them when you are finished. They would not look different because the are placed on another color in the doc than outside. Reassigned to Christian. Please have a look if the application background color can be applied to Draw, too.
"You can work on objects outside the doc and than place them when you are finished." - I use a new slide or layer for drafts. Thanks, that you have a look on this issue.
It was a design decision to use the same color for application background as for the document in draw, just as Wolfram pointed out. This behavior is also some years old now and this is the first complain. So I don't see a good reason to change this except if you get enough people to vote for this issue.
Thanks for your input, please understand that we can not consider every request for changes
"This behavior is also some years old now" - that's not true. It is grey in the still actual versions SO6.0 and OOo1.0.3. On the one hand I can understand Wolfram but on the other hand it's a pity that the user cannot make a choice although that is possible for the other moduls.
I don't no, how I became "owner". I have only reported a bug and don't belong to those, who develop OOo.
So I think that issue type "Enhancement" fits better here. I chnage the issue type and send it to the appropriate person.
Reassigned to Bettina.
I agree 100% with you Regina Henschel, maybe you should also vote for this issue. Users should have the option to choose what application background color they like. Meanwhile, I've switched to impress to do my drawing work.
Yes, we should change it and enable switching to other colors for Draw too. It is irritating, that the background is changable for all apps except for Draw, and that in the group "General" (Tools/Options/Appearance/General), so one has no chance to understand that. And my own experience is, that, if I use the area outside the Drawdoc, I do it independent of the color, I am not confused by a color unequal white.
Oj, what a status 'started wontfix'. I have to change it, so that it keeps as started.
closed, to be able to get the status 'Started'.
Reopened.
Ok, on 'Started' again.
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".