[Libreoffice-qa] Base: Properties in Fields of a Form chaotically "sorted"

[Mas]

On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Robert Großkopf <robert at familiegrosskopf.de
> wrote:

> Hi Mas,
> >>
> >
> > I viewed your attachment again .  The screen shot was presented in
> > English and if you notice under the general tab. The list goes from
> > A-Z -- alignment being the first and background color being next.
> > This is called alphabetical order from A-Z
> >
> >  I checked under releases 4.1.03 and 4.1.04 Window and Linux. They are
> > setup the same way.
> >
> >
> > see attached from my version , We can possibly file this under a feature
> > request instead of a bug
>
> Your attachment doesn't show the whole field-properties of a form in
> base I presented. I'm not interested into a long discussion and writing
> down all the properties here. But I have written the part you have
> attached:
>
> 1       Alignment
> 2       Background color
> 3       Border
> 4       Border color
> 5       Default text
> 6       Password character
> 7       Visible
> 8       Enabled
> 9       Font
> 10      Height
> 11      Help Text
> 12      Hide selection
> 13      Label Field
> 14      Text lines end with
> 15      Max. text length
>
> That is the order of your screenshot. I put it into Calc and let it
> order in alphabethical form:
>
> 1       Alignment
> 2       Background color
> 3       Border
> 4       Border color
> 5       Default text
> 8       Enabled
> 9       Font
> 10      Height
> 11      Help Text
> 12      Hide selection
> 13      Label Field
> 15      Max. text length
> 6       Password character
> 14      Text lines end with
> 7       Visible
>
> That is the alphabethical order of Calc. The first five fields are
> ordered alphabethical. So please don't close a bug with the argument the
> order is alphabetical, if it isn't. Say it is chaotically and I love
> chaotically LO - and if many people of this list will aggree it might be
> OK (for alle the people, who loves chaos, not for people, who will work
> with software). Then I wouldn't open the bug again and will leave this
> projekt.
> Alphabetical order isn't an argument. The changing of the order by
> groups (Anchor together with Height and Width and Positionx and
> PositionY for example) to no order is a regression in usability. I think
> nobody has changed this behavior from LO 4.0 to LO 4.1 with this
> intention. There has been changed something at another point and nobody
> noticed, that this would change the usability of the editing of
> form-fields.
>
> Robert
>
>

I will research this further and reply to the bug ticket.  Thanks
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Mas
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