Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 33668
Mouse right-click on a toolbar to customize it
Last modified: 2008-09-09 13:45:02 UTC
In OOo 1.1.2, I can invoke customize dialog for a toolbar by mouse right-click on it. However, this possibility is absent in latest developer builds (including m51). I suggest to bring it back.
MRU->ES: I think you know anything about what changed, right? ;-)
You can reach the cutom dialog by clicking on the toolbar selector (the small traiangle at the end of a toolbar) and choose Customize toolbar. This way you get the Customize dialog with focus on the current toolbar.
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Sorry, for nagging, but: 1. That selector is a very small area, and with a small monitor it quite inconvenient. 2. Right-click on a toolbar not only opens the customize dialog, but also lets a) enable/disable toolbars b) enable/disable buttons on a toolbar c) reset a toolbar. This is a very handy feature. I can't understand, why it was removed from pre-1. 9 builds, considering the general trend to "microsoftize" OOo. In MS Office. right-click has a very simila behavior. I still believe, the developers must bring it back.
I also would strongly recommend to bring back the right mouse click to the toolbar. Not only it is more like it is done in MS-Office, but also for the current users of OOo 1.x. In my case I was confused when I first installed this developer build and I'm using OOo a long time.
ES->SSA: would it be a technical problem to reintroduce the context menu on toolbars or is that a wanted behavior? (Please sync with UserEx)
ssa->cj: please give your comment. if it results in a new feature, this must be handled by CD. the timeframe, however, will probably not be OOo2.0, as feature freeze has already been reached.
We shall display as context menu the feature set from the Customize menu of a toolbar + a list of all toolbars. The context menu shall look like shown in the example below: Toolbar 1 Toolbar 2 Toolbar 3 ... --------- Visible Buttons > Customize Toolbar... --------- Dock Toolbar Dock All Toobars --------- Lock Toolbar Position I change this from enhancement to defect, because it is a feature we had in OO.o 1.1.
CD: Discussed with CJ. RMB should also show the same context menu as clicking on the rightmost toolbar button. CD->SSA: Please add this to the VCL toolbar class as you are the only one who can determine clipped items. If you use the same implementation as for the rightmost button, nothing has to be changed in the framework base code.
Using for right mouse button click the very same menu as for the customize button brings no real advantage to the user and would especially not bring back the functionality the conetxt menu once had (ie choosing among all availabe toolbars etc.) So I suggest coming up with a properly designed context menu that has shortcuts to the most important customization features, similar to those mentioned earlier and may be even more. This feature, however, canot be implemented in the OOo 2.0 timeframe anymore.
I think it is a great pity that this feature cannot be put back into ooo before 2.0 - many users will be frustrated by having to click on that very small area to customize the tool bar.
CJ: BAsed on SSAs statement, I'll set the target to Office later
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I agree it is a pity OO not having this feature. In my humble opinion it should be implemented.
Hi guys, is there any advance on this issue ? Many thanks.
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Christian, please comment. Either you deny the request (but have a look on the huge number of duplicates!) or you agree and hand it over to development. I think it's something we should be able to implement in 3.0. Of course we must design the content of the menu.
I'll assign this bug to Carsten. Mathias, if he can't do the change please assign this bug to anyone who wants to volunteer. Regarding the Context Menu. A context click on the toolbar should rise a pop-up menu, which provides the entry "Customize...". Selecting this entry calls up the "Customize" dialog with the "Toolbar" tab and according Toolbar preselected.
Changed target to 3.0
(Mathias, thank you very much for bringing this up!) IMO, design idea by CJ at "Thu Sep 9 08:11:54 +0000 2004" (http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=33668#desc9) looks reasonable.
Are we on track for 3.0 with this 3.0-targeted issue?
cd->kpalagin: I have a developer who wants to implement this enhancement for OOo 3.0.
Created attachment 52799 [details] Mouse right-click on a toolbar to customize it
Created attachment 52800 [details] Mouse right-click on a toolbar to customize it
I have fixed the issue, thank Carsten for your help and everyone who provided the suggestions
cd: Fixed.
cd: Set issue type to PATCH.
cd->tm: Please verify.
Checked and verified in cws fwk88 -> OK !
seems to be ok Tested witz 3.0.0rc1 Mac version on PPC Tiger closing issue