Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 5016
toolbar customisation failures
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:43:23 UTC
toolbar customisation does not work as described in the manual: pressing alt and dragging an icon around will move an outlinefrom one toolbar to another, but it is not accepted. this is repeatable: it happens eveyr time I try it. Using the "customise" function fails more randomly. I can get a list of possible butons and commands and cutomsise then. but I never know which toolbar will accept them when dragged. for instance. I was able to add "insert note" tot he main toolbar, but not the function bar; but "insert footnote" would only go to the function bar and not the main toolbar. finally, changing the visible buttons in the main toolbar, for instnace by removing the "load url" window, quite often means that the whole toolbar comes up blank if, after changing it, I stop and then restart OOo.
Trying to make an entirely new toolbar produces different failures: attempts to make and customise a new toolbar produce something that can't be deleted, and does not accept drag and drop from other toolbars. deleting this, from the customisation screen, crashes the entire program, just as any sort of customisation used to do in build 641. however, the program will restart from this. some customisations have then been lost: eg the look and feel of the title bars, and the smart quotes. but not text appears to have been lost that I was working on.
I think I have narrowed this down a little. What seems to happen is that a toolbar may be customised <b>once</b>. To customise it again, it is necessary to "reset" in the dialog box. Of course, this loses all earlier customisations. So that is a very irritating bug indeed.
Should this go to the Framework project? Or are toolbars application dependent?
Further comment: some of ths is a help file / documentation issue: the alt-dragging does work as described, _but only when the the "customise" dialogue box is open_. The documentation should make that clear. It reads as if you could alt-drag icons around the toolbars at any time. Since there are other programs that let you do this, it is misleading. The failure to accept changes to an already customised toolbar remains a bug in the code, not the documentation. So does the occasional, apparently random, loss of earlier customisaitons.
Couldn't reproduce that with the newest 641 or 643 builds. So at least it should be fixed in OOo1.0.2.
Thanks very much. Will the documentation get changed too? Or does alt-drag work at any time in 643. I would suggest a patch for the help file, but there's no obvious way for people to volunteer to do this.
ALT-Drag should work always, when the toolbox customize dialog is opened you don't need to press "ALT", just drag. So the manual is right, it would be a bug if it fails. I tested it with a build that will match the future OOo1.0.2 release, but I was also not able to reproduce this bug in a StarOffice 6.0 version that should be nearly the same as OOo1.0. So it's really hard to reproduce this bug. It is known that we had some bugs in the toolbox configuration, so some of your strange discoveries may be caused by these bugs. It's hard to check every single bug, and as you said, some of them appear only by chance. We fixed some in betweenn, so please wait for the OOo1.0.2 version that is expected to be released November this year.
I shall possess my soul in patience, then, as my grandmother used to say :-) Will 1.0.2 be the 643 branch that seems to be getting all the interesting fixes at the moment? IOW, should it have the regex code working, too?
No, 1.0.2 will be based on the stable src641 branch. The 643 branch is a predecessor to the next bigger release (we call it OOo1.1 at the moment). The first 643 version of OOo that is built currently will contain the bugfixes for the toolbar configuration also, but it's a developer build and not very stable.
Reassigned to Hasan.
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