Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 56825
control for changing borders does not work intuitive at all
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:31:23 UTC
I was designing a nice paragraph with an colorfull border but by clicking on the user defined borders they are changing back to black. You can reproduce it in this way: Open a new document. Define a new paragraphstyle (F11) I have called it "Text body for Heading2" Edit this style -> open the "Borders" Tab in the "Paragraph Style: ..." Window Click on Default(Line arrangement) "all Borders" Set them to Color "Sun 2" -> OK Reopen the Edit Window Click in the User-defined Line-arrangement Borderpreview on the right Border and set it to: Style 5.00pt and Color Sun 3 -> OK Reopen the Edit Window You see now, that the color is resetted to black and if you click on the right Border in the preview the border disappears and if you hit OK it is disappeard. Or sometimes it changes back to black instead displaying the at this time used color. Play a bit arround with this and you will see, that it is reacting very strange and not like you expect it.
Created attachment 30937 [details] Start with this situation to play arround
This is not a special WRITER problem, you also see it in CALC: 1. Open new CALC document: 2. Mark area with Cells B12, C12,B13, C13 by mouse 3. open Menu: "Format - Cells" 4. Select "Lines - Standard - Outside marked Area (second from left) 5. Select cokur "orange 1" 6. <OK> 7. Reopen Menu "Format - Cells" In the Previw the border is shown correctly, colour and thickness are shown correctly, and if you click 4 times to one of the borders in the "user defined" preview pane, it will be "orange 1" again 8. Now open again Menu "Format - Cells" 9. Click on the right border in the "user defined" preview pane, set thicknes to "5" and colout to "red" 10. Redoas per "7." expected: if you click 4 times on a border in "user defined" preview pane, it should have old shape again, for example right border "5pt red" actual: after 4 times click on border and <OK>, that border will be "reset" to standard 0,05pt black
I checked with 2.0 German version WIN XP: [680m3(Build8968)], NEW due to comments from rainerbielefeld Thu Oct 27 23:10:50 -0700 2005
It's the same behaviour as in 1.1.4, and I can't believe that this is the first issue concerning this, but I am not abel to find an other issue. May be that the dialogue works "as designed", but that is not userfriendly and shoud be improved, because missing information concerning current border style is annoying if you want to modify borders of paragraph or cell range with different border styles in area.
Yes, this is annoying. And you are not be able to determine which settings the border has had in the past, because if you click at it, it get set back to standard black and size 0.5.
...It's the same behaviour as in 1.1.4, and I can't believe that this is the first issue concerning this... Probably no one has used it in this advanced way, because all had this weird problem and have thought: "Hm, it is not working this way. Probably I make something wrong and I do not understand how this should work and so I better leave it."
MRU->OS: it looks, that the behaviour of this dialog/tab has never been recorded in a spec. But the current is not intuitive. When opening the border tab and a customized border setting has been applied before, the 0,05pt style is pre-selected (which is not the problem). But the first click into the "user-defined" border control will change the format and this is not desired.
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