Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 44244
Missing Circles&Ovals toolbar in Draw
Last modified: 2014-10-22 20:30:04 UTC
The Circles and Ovals toolbar is not listed in View>Toolbars... list. So, it is impossibel to open this toolbar in Draw. The consequence is that it is IMPOSSIBLE to draw circle or elipse arcs, or sectors. Those items are only available from the toolbar, there is no menu item, nor can be added by modifiying an existing shape. I think this is definitely a regression bug. - Enrique -
confirm with 19m81 PJanik build
1. drawing circle or elipse arcs or sectors isd still possible with the new custom shapes. The button basic shapes contains them. 2. Via tools/customize it is still possible to apply the desired functions to the toolbars. 3. in impress this bar is still available.
Closed. Thanks for your help.
Let me reopen the issue for a further discussion. WQ: 1. drawing circle or elipse arcs or sectors isd still possible with the new custom shapes. The button basic shapes contains them. EC: NO, the basic shapes contains circles and pies, but not arcs. Arcs are lines, circunference with out the disk filling. Arcs have ends that may have decorations (arrowheads et al.) You correctly indicated that Impress do have this toolbar, so why not Draw?. Now in OOo 2.0 beta Circles and Ovals toolbar do exists, but you cannot make it visible within Draw (you can in Impress). Conversely, "Arrows" toolbar is available in View>Toolbars in Draw, but not in Impress. Why do existing toolbars should remain not hidden but "uncallable" from certain applications, if that application do can manage those objects? I think that at least "additional" or "extra" toolbars should be available for install (make it visible) from each OOo component (Draw, Impress etc), so all toolbars should have an entry in the View>Toolbars list, within all applications. In that way, any user may use any tool at his desire. I think that this is simply a matter of a forgotten item in the list, easily fixable. - Enrique -
This is related to issue 44246 Really both arise from an error in the View>Toolbars menu. This item should show a list of all available toolbars that contains objects managed by a given application. Draw and Impress both do use arrows, circles, arcs etc. Even Writer can manage them. I think this list should contain all toolbars predefined in OOo. Let the user decide which of them make visible or dock. If a toolbar is not in thar list, it cannot be made visible and usable, even if the user knows it exists (because he uses it in other application). This is at least confusing, a clear inconsistency, and, for me, a cause of user frustation.
The circle and oval functions can be reconfigurated using the customize function of the toolbar. This functions are available. Since these are basic drawing functions they should at least appear in both applications in the view/toolbar listing. So there is only the circle and oval toolbar to be reconfigured for the draw application to appear in view/toolbar menu.
Reassigned.
*** Issue 40962 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
@all: This is a very old issue. In Impress, there is no method to link in either the Circles & Ovals nor the Rectangles sub-toolbars. Recommend that these be sub-ordinated to the Drawing toolbar. In Draw, neither of these two toolbars are available and should be to match functionality of other available products. James McKenzie
The toolbar "Text", which contains the callouts type "draw:caption" is missing too.
*** Issue 67308 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
This bug is still present in 2.2.1
Any plans for this issue?
*** Issue 90811 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
*** Issue 58209 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
*** Issue 59541 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
My god... I just realize this simple bug was opened in 2005 and is not solved yet ! I really shall give up OO.
Reset to default owner because no progress since years. Set developer difficulty to "easy". Hint: Look for the existing entries and add the missing entry similar. For the toolbar it is an .uno:EllipseToolbox. If changing the menu is to difficult at the beginning, start with correcting the toolbar.
I want to take this issue to resolve. I don't have the proper rights to "Take". So provide me the permissions to assign it to me.
Hi Ankit, you now have "edit-bugs", "can-confirm" and "qa-team" rights in this issue tracker, so you can e.g. assign this bug to yourself.
Some tips originally sent to the dev list, but better palced here: as a first step, you will want that View - Toolbars in Draw contains "Circles and Ovals", as it happens in Impress. To check where this is defined, start by searching "Circles and Ovals" (with the quotes) in Opengrok http://opengrok.adfinis-sygroup.org/source/ after setting "Project" (right hand side) to "aoo-trunk": your results are http://opengrok.adfinis-sygroup.org/source/search?q=%22Circles+and+Ovals%22&defs=&refs=&path=&hist=&project=aoo-trunk and you will see (among other references) two very similar files, one for Draw and one for Impress. Start your investigation from there, and if you have any doubts ask here in the issue.