[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 119860] New: Text positioning in shape objects does not work anymore both in Impress and Draw

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119860

            Bug ID: 119860
           Summary: Text positioning in shape objects does not work
                    anymore both in Impress and Draw
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 6.1.1.2 release
          Hardware: All
                OS: Windows (All)
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: UI
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: silvandy at katamail.com

Description:
In shape objects in Impress and Draw you can insert text. The "text" dialog box
allows to specify the position of the text in the shape, as well other settings
(e.g. if the text flows automatically inside the shape).
In 6.1.*.* any change of the text position inside the shape is ignored, the
latter remaining always in the center. No workaround, apparently. Makes using
shapes with text inside impossible.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open a new impress or Draw document. Draw a simple rectangle on the page.
Give color background to the rectangle, so that it is simple to select and move
it around.
2. Now with a double click on the rectangle the text cursor appears and you can
insert some text; write some sentence, possibly long enough so that to fit into
the shape it must wrap on multiple lines.
3. Now choose Format menu, Command "text". The appropriate dialog box appears,
switch on the "text flows inside the shape" option (this is a translation from
the Italian version, english original may vary slightly). The text is now
psread on some lines so to fit inside the shape.
4. Recall the "text" dialog box again; on the right side you have a rectanlge
with some handles that helps you move the text around the shape. For example,
click on the upper left corner: the should now move from the center to the
upper left of the shape. Instead, it remains in the center.
5. This happens cicking ANYWHERE, any corner or any point in the middle of the
rectangle edges, no changes at all. 
6. When you reopen the dialog box, you can see your choice was ignored, and in
the rectangle there the active point is always the center, no mater what you
chose before.
7. Now create a text object by choosing the "insert text box" button (this is
rectangular by default), and write the same text in it. In this case, the text
is placed at the upper left corner of the rectangle.
8. open the "text" dialog box again, this time relative to the text box. The
layout of the dialog is the same as before (a rectangle with the corners and
middle edges clickable). The active point here is the upper left corner.
9. As before, any effort to change the active point for text placement is
ignored. The only difference is the immutable starting point.

In all, work with presentations that go beyond the most basic instances is
severely impaired. 
Alas again (as with bug
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118820) this can be reason
enough to downgrade to 6.0, which DID NOT have this problem.
I sincerely cannot figure out how a second digit release can cause so much
trouble in the correct application of simple formatting... I am now doing some
testing on a 6.1.1.2 parallel install with some trepidation every time I an
changing some object's settings....

Actual Results:
Text position in shapes and text boxes in Impress and Draw cannot be changed.
the dialog box for this ignores the change the user tries to apply.

Expected Results:
Clicking to any corner or middle edge in the dialog box should allow to move
text in the desired position. This happened until 6.0.6


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



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