Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 39687
Toolbar buttons with a combination drop down options should work on single click
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:32:34 UTC
Run OO.o writer Open a document Press F11 to open stylist make a selection of words. Click the new style from selection icon in stylist. Nothing happens. Click the dropdown arrow at the end of the menu item and choose the 'New Style from Selection' menu item. The dialog opens and works fine. Seems the icon is broken. If the icon is to work on the recent-done action then - it should create new style it should update the style; or it should Load styles
Reassigned to ES.
It works like any other drop down menu icon. A long click or a simple click on the dropdown arrow.
closed
using 680m74 - win2k - writer I am reopening this issue after examining what happens in other applications and even in OO.o in other contexts. i would like to give the example of OO.o backing window: The standard toolbar has the new document icon with a drop down alongside. Now if u click the icon a text document is opened. That means u don't have to pull down the menu a second time unless you want to change the option. In other cases: - If there is drop down list attached to an icon, the icon itself changes to the recently used one. A single click on the icon produces the same result associated to that particular [active] icon/command. You can examine the Zoom function of Acrobat Reader. Therefore I propose to change the behaviour of the create new style from selection. This behaviour would be somewhat intelligent and user-friendly.
as described
cd: This is not broken. Due to our new toolbar design, you can now open the dropdrown menu with a additional dropdown button. Therefor you think a click on the button should now behave differently. We think about a general solution, but your solution would need much developer time as it must be implemented for every single function with a dropdown button. cd: There will be a meeting in a couple of days to talk about this special problem. I will send this bug to the responsible developer, if we decide to fix it.
cd->aparan: We discussed our problem and decided to use another toolbar button style where a button consists of a "button and a dropdown button" as a composition ( you cannot use both of them). The "new style from selection"-button will be one of those, so your solution is more a request for enhancement. Sorry, but I hope that we can implement your request in the next version. We will use 39612 to fix the button style.
reassigned to requirements
changed summary to suit an enhancement. But this takes the shape of a defect sometimes. For e.g. in Calc when u make a selection and pick a border type from the toolbar button. Then u make another selection and click the button again. Nothing happens :( This puts the user at the inconvenience of pulling donw the list of buttons [in the case borders] and clicking them. I think the issue could be prioritised to be included in 2.0 perhaps? About the generality of the case: Why the New document icon behaves differently?
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