https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164946
Bug ID: 164946
Summary: Images or Shapes "Area" filling dropdowns (and line
borders) could be combined to save horizontal toolbar
space
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: UI
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Created attachment 198874
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Screenshot of the current items in the toolbars
When in "Tabbed" notebookbar or "Groupedbar Compact" UI toolbars layout mode,
when you have a shape (or an image) selected in Writer / Draw / Impress, as you
can see in the attached screenshot, you have this huge amount of horizontal
space consumed by the fact that the area's fill mode (solid vs gradient etc.)
is a separate combobox widget from the actual value of that fill (the color or
the exact gradient).
A lot of precious horizontal space could be saved by combining these two into
the same popover-style dropdown widget than the one that shows up when you
click the fill color (i.e. the one with the colors palette, like in my
screenshot). This would allow users to see more of the rest of the toolbar,
especially on lower resolutions screens (like my laptop or my 1600x900
monitor).
The unified widget's clickable item on the toolbar could use the appearance of
the current 2nd fill color/gradient preview menubutton widget; it's fairly
obvious that it is a "color" or "gradient" thanks to the visual preview.
Basically, the idea is to merge the mode combobox into the value combobox.
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Arguably, the same kind of combination could probably be done for the "Line"
settings too. By making these changes together, you could easily halve the
horizontal width required for this section of the toolbar.
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