Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 69188
Toolbars move around when changing from "selection" to "textbox edit" modes.
Last modified: 2013-08-07 15:20:06 UTC
A slide contains a text box. I have customized the toolbar display to show the following toolbars, all in "Icons Only" mode: Standard, Presentation, Zoom, and either Text Formatting (when a textbox is selected) or Line & Filling (any other time). (It'd be nice, incidentally, if they could both be visible at the same time.) "Drawing" is also active, but at the bottom. Problem: "Text Formatting" and "Line & Filling" do not play nicely with other toolbars (tested on Zoom, Presentation and Standard). Specifically, a change in which one is visible (for instance, selecting a text box's contents, and then clicking to select the edge of the box to give it a border) causes the toolbars to jump around unexpectedly. "TF" and "L&F" act as though they both want to be the only thing on that line; if something else is placed beside them, they will either bump the other toolbar to the next line, or move down to the next line themselves. These seem to be the only two that behave this way, although I haven't tested every combination. This is a problem because neither one of them is really big enough to fill the width of the toolbar area, while "Zoom" (for instance) fits nicely on the same line. This problem was also present in 2.0.2, and was actually the reason I upgraded to 2.0.3, hoping it'd been fixed.
Created attachment 38893 [details] ASCII version of the buggy toolbar behavior
Reproducible. A workaround for me was to get into text edit mode (TF bar visible), drag the zoom toolbar a little bit to the right,move the TF bar up one line (into the same line as zoom toolbar) and there you go. This should be what you wanted. In my opinion the problems lies in the fact that the TF bar has some more icons when Asian languages and CTL is enabled. If you do so you'll see that the toolbar gets much broader. @cd: is there anything that could be done here?
That's a nicer workaround for sure; I'd been leaving the zoom toolbar at the bottom (same line as drawing toolbar), but I tend to look for it at the top thanks to the defaults of a certain commercial product. I'm not sure this is connected to the Asian language/CTL settings -- I just checked and neither one of those is enabled. When I did enable them, the formatting toolbar added a couple of icons, but there should not have been overlap with the Zoom toolbar (pulled all the way to the right edge of the screen). Perhaps the toolbars are assuming a preset maximum screen width? I've got 1280 x 1024.
cd: I have to look at this issue more closely (that's why I accept it). I could be that this is not a defect, but works as designed, although I have to admit from a user point of view it looks like a defect.
target 3.x