https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92283
Bug ID: 92283
Summary: UI: property sidebar is not up to substituting the
"line and fill toolbar" with respect to line width
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Draw
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
In LibO 5.0 RC, the line and fill toolbar appears to be disabled by default.
The rationale for this decision is probably that the property sidebar should
completely substitute for it.
Unfortunately, it does not, appearing rather immature and causing operations
that were quite easy to accomplish with the toolbar to become much more
complex.
A notable issue is with line width/thickness.
1) With the toolbar, the thickness is expressed using whatever measurement unit
the user prefers to work with. With the properties sidebar, the thickness is
always expressed in points, whatever the adopted measurement unit. This is a
serious impairment to technical drawing where different types of lines must
have different thickness values and the standard thickness values are expressed
using metric or imperial units, not points.
For instance, in Europe a standard outline is 0.20 mm. To get such a line
width, now one has to remember that there are 72 points per inch and compute
0.20 mm / 25.4 inches/mm * 72 pt/inch = 0.56 pt
2) With the properties sidebar, entering custom line widths with some accuracy
is impossible, as the text box only keeps a single decimal. With reference to
the previous example, entering 0.56 pt results in 0.6 pt that is 0.21 mm
3) At least with LibO 5.0RC1, using the property sidebar and the custom line
width text box causes LibO to crash rather often.
The above is not to say that LibO should stick with the "traditional" line and
fill toolbar, but that the switch to the property sidebar should be made when
the sidebar does not introduce significant regressions with respect to the
traditional toolbar.
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