[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 132568] New: FORMATTING, EDITING: define line styles for line drawings

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132568

            Bug ID: 132568
           Summary: FORMATTING, EDITING: define line styles for line
                    drawings
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 6.4.0.3 release
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: Writer
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: xvids121 at crapmail.org

Description:
In LO writer there does not seem to to be any defaults for line colour, angle,
arrow, thickness.  

new line reverts to blue colour with a standard thickness, 0 degree angle and
no arrows.  free-form and straight line drawing is almost a necessity for
drawing lines between images and text across the page or on top of images and
when doing this regularly becomes cumbersome when having to edit all properties
of each line individually.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Insert menu → Shape → Line → Line OR Freeform-Line (or other objects)
2.
3.

Actual Results:
new line reverts to blue colour with a standard thickness, 0 degree angle and
no arrows.  free-form and straight line drawing is almost a necessity for
drawing lines between images and text across the page or on top of images and
when doing this regularly becomes cumbersome when having to edit all properties
of each line individually.

Expected Results:
* should be able to select line profiles / styles predefined by the user which
can apply a set of pre-defined attributes such as colour, thickness, angle, etc
to the surrently select line(s).

* ideally drawing new lines with a selected style would apply the style after
release of the mouse button.

* "line style" under right-click → Line → "Line style" tab should probably be
renamed from "line style", which is misleading to something more meaningful
such as "line continuity", since it is only limited to dot/dashes of lines and
their spacing.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes


OpenGL enabled: Yes

Additional Info:
Trying to apply a style / profile / set of attributes to new drawing objects
when selecting **Insert → Shape → Line → Line** menu.  Pasting a line preserves
line attributes such as colour, dotted or dashed, arrows and angle, but when
drawing free-form lines it is easier to draw a new free-form line with the
mouse rather than manipulating individual points in order to mould the new free
form line around the new text.  

In writer it appears that lines or drawing objects are not managed by a regular
style (F11) which you can simply apply to a frame or table but almost as if
drawings do not support this feature.

Free-form and straight lines always seem to revert back to some unknown setting
I cannot find.  One can select *continuous* line "style" but not edit it in any
way and this still the line to blue.

One can define new "styles" under the *line style* tab whose options are
limited to whether the line is dotted or dashed and the length of those dashes.
 I can get something close to a continous line by reducing the length/spacing
in the line tab, but it is dashed.


Tracing a line with the mouse results in a blue colour with a standard
thickness.   These settings are easily changed via the **Document Object
Property toolbar** or **select line → right-click → Line...** context menu. 
Due to the nature of mouse tracing a line it can be difficult to draw arrows at
right angles (eg, 0, 90, 270°) so have been resorting to copy and pasting
existing arrows, but when you are in the midst of writing and just want to
insert a shape with predefined attributes it tends to interrupt what you are
doing.  ie, you have to go and find a suitable arrow on another page, select
it, (losing your place in the document), find your place back to where you were
working then paste it.

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Some specific questions include:

To draw arrows with default settings applied how can one create some sort of a
'style' so that they all come out the same or to a various predefined defaults
without having to fiddle with angle, arrow head or colour for each line/arrow
created?

Is there a hotkey setting or easy way to change the angle from say 0°  to 90°?

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