https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150461
Bug ID: 150461
Summary: Allow deselecting tables in View->Tables
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
URL: https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/cant-click-outside-desel
ect-table-in-base/80738
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Keywords: needsUXEval
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Base
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Reporter: mikekagan...@hotmail.com
Created attachment 181832
--> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=181832&action=edit
Comparison of context menu in table unselected vs selected modes
In Base's View->Tables, initially no tables are selected. In that mode, the
context menu in the table area looks like on the screenshot's upper part.
After you select any table, the context menu looks differently, as shown in the
lower part. It indeed looks specific to the selected item (and there is another
context menu, shown for multiple selection - but that latter one is out of
consideration here).
The problem is, that it is impossible to deselect all tables, to get back to
the state and menu shown in the upper part, after a table had been selected.
This leads to user's confusion, as described in
https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/cant-click-outside-deselect-table-in-base/80738.
Pasting of a data would bring the dialog, where one can chose how to paste
(allowing to not append, but create a new table), but it's not clear without
experimenting, and even then, it would require to change the default selection
in the dialog manually.
It seems to be no reason to not allow deselection of a table after initial
selection.
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