Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 19553
Stylist (F11) missing window controls
Last modified: 2003-09-17 23:26:52 UTC
In previous versions of OpenOffice and StartOffice the popup window for Stylist (Function key 11) has had window decoration that included the minimise/restore and close buttons. 1.1RC3 and RC4 (I didn't try RC2 or earlier 1.1 builds) don't have these buttons.
Change to feature. It is useful, if we can have other button in the stylist, instead of only close. I suggest: Minimize Dock Close
Oh, yes please! I accidentally undocked the function bar and couldn't work out how to re-dock it. A dock button would be very helpful, as would the minimise. If I can take your suggestion one step further, context sensitive help would be good to include. However, that probably shouldn't be on window decoration... And if I want to be really, really pushy, I'd ask for the window to be transparent. I usually want to see the styles and if I select the window to foreground, I will want to select them, but until then I want to see through a non-opaque background in the stylist window and to have the text of the stylist in lightgrey until selected. The stylist dialogue shouldn't really be, IMO, a modal dialogue interface. It's naturally a drop down, like the font selection. I think that for real "style-sheet-style" editing, the properties on the function bar (font, size, bold, colour) should be completely dismissable, replaced entirely by the styles from the stylist. However, that's really pie-in-sky-nowhere-near-1.1-release stuff :-)
Something else I've noticed is that the focus remains on the stylist after the double-click minimise. I'm not sure how to make the focus shift to the application, but I don't think it is helpful to anyone to keep the keyboard focus on a minimised window. If/when you fix up the minimise/dock/other buttons, could you look at putting keyboard focus back on the application, to reduce mouse operations? I'm using a default GNOME config on Debian 3.0, no changes to focus policy or window decoration that I can recall making. The WM is sawfish.
duplicate. Configure your window manager to draw window-borders with the appropriate controls. OOo now uses the system's features to draw its windows. The applied styles are available as a dropdown, next to the font-selector. You can redoch the window using <ctrl> while dragging. You can place the stylist outside the OOo window so it doesn't cover your text. Again your window manager is responsible for the focus handling *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 8095 ***
see issue 14949 for an explanation on how to use sawfish-ui to create a rule to draw borders for a class of windows. closing.