https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151978
Bug ID: 151978
Summary: Need another way to apply a style to Draw textboxes
Product: LibreOffice
Version: Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Keywords: difficultyMedium, easyHack, skillCpp, skillDesign,
topicUI
Severity: enhancement
Priority: low
Component: Draw
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected]
I was just helping someone who couldn't figure out how to apply a text style to
the textboxes in Draw. I only discovered ONE way to do it - double-clicking on
the sidebar's Style choices. [Format - Style - Manage Styles can take you there
which is nice, but not necessarily intuitive since we want to apply a style,
not manage them.]
In Writer we have a few other places that provide a limited set of choices: the
toolbar, a styles menu, and a paragraph right-click option. But only the
sidebar's styles gives you the full choice to apply any style - only by
double-clicking.
So, ultimately this isn't THAT unintuitive and it is fairly consistent, so I'm
marking this as a low priority. But it is limiting to have only a single way -
that limits discoverability.
Of course, in Draw you can't apply a style to a paragraph, only to an entire
textbox. Since the style will affect the text attributes, I think it would make
sense to have something in the textbox/shapes "Text Attributes" dialog that
allows selecting which style is applied.
Secondly, it is probably good to add an "Apply" to the right-click on the style
sidebar's choices which functions the same as a double-click.
Thirdly, Draw's "edit style" textbox right-click option could be converted to
the "Styles" pop-out that gives more choices (like manage). Only having "edit"
available seems a bit dangerous since it affects the whole document.
Fourthly, it might make sense to add it to the "Text Formatting" toolbar,
although it doesn't apply to paragraphs - so not necessarily appropriate here.
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