[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 131764] UI: Insert textbox button marked active while cursor inside textbox

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131764

--- Comment #9 from Maxim Monastirsky <momonasmon at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #6)
> Simply disable the command while in edit mode, my take.

This will make it even more confusing. Imagine a user who want to insert a text
box, but it happens that he has a shape or another text box selected. He is
clicking on the insert text box button, but then suddenly that button becomes
disabled. He then might try to draw the text box anyway, with no success. The
benefit of keeping the button enabled, is that the user can at least click on
the button again, which will allow him finally to draw the text box. And as
said in comment 5, there's no reason why we can't make it possible to draw text
boxes while another shape or text box is in edit mode. So the first click on
the button should be actually enough to also enable the insertion mode.

In addition, I believe the confusion discussed here was mostly caused by the
fact the button has a tooltip "Insert Text Box", which is incorrect, as the
button is actually a "text tool" button. In the distant past this command used
to be called just "Text", and was only present in the toolbar, and not in the
Insert menu, so there was no confusion back then. But at some point in time
someone decided to add it to the Insert menu, and to rename it to "Insert Text
Box". So I think that at least the toolbar button should be renamed back to
"Text".

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