https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70352
Priority: medium
Bug ID: 70352
Assignee: [email protected]
Summary: Not all border line styles are available at all levels
of line thickness
Severity: enhancement
Classification: Unclassified
OS: All
Reporter: [email protected]
Hardware: Other
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Version: 3.5.7.2 release
Component: UI
Product: LibreOffice
Created attachment 87410
--> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=87410&action=edit
Screenshot of border thickness affecting presented line styles
Problem:
When applying a border to objects in various components(writer tables/calc
cells/etc...), at the default border thickness of .05px, many of the styles are
not shown as available. Only by first upping the line thickness will these
styles be visible. Many users will simply never know that they exist.
Here's the breakdown of line thickness to how many styles are shown:
less than .50pt shows 8 line styles
.50pt shows 10 line styles
.75pt shows 12 line styles
1.0pt and above shows 14 line styles
I could possibly understand why some of the fancier line styles wouldn't be
applicable to very small thicknesses, but the interface should at least give
some indication that they are available. I might also be reading too much into
this behavior and the real bug is that all styles really should be
presented/applied at every thickness. I could see it going either way, but
I'll write the rest of this under the assumption that it is behaving based on
intended behavior.
Suggestions:
The most reasonable solution I can think of in terms of ease of
implementation/efficacy is to simply add a text field or tool-tip simply
stating, "Increase line thickness for more line styles."
Also, the interface is set up with line style chosen first and thickness
second. If these were reversed, users would at least potentially set their
thickness first and then be presented with all of the options for the chosen
thickness. Of course, this still isn't horribly intuitive, looks funny, and
users will still probably select style first. It'd be easy to implement, but I
don't like this option.
It would be more costly to implement, but the drop down line style list could
even be enhanced to show all line styles, but with the ones that aren't
available at the current thickness greyed out. I can't think of an elegant way
to also notify users that the styles are greyed out because the thickness is
too small.
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