[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 139977] Tools>Options>LibreOffice Writer>Table dialog, "Variable" setting does not work when resizing cells with keyboard shortcut (comment 7)

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139977

Stéphane Guillou (stragu) <stephane.guillou at libreoffice.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Blocks|                            |103100
                 OS|Windows (All)               |All
                 CC|                            |libreoffice-ux-advise at lists
                   |                            |.freedesktop.org,
                   |                            |stephane.guillou at libreoffic
                   |                            |e.org
            Summary|Tools>Optionns>LibreOffice  |Tools>Options>LibreOffice
                   |Writer>Table dialog,        |Writer>Table dialog,
                   |section Behavior of         |"Variable" setting does not
                   |rows/columns dont work      |work when resizing cells
                   |properly                    |with keyboard shortcut
                   |                            |(comment 7)
           Keywords|                            |needsUXEval
     Ever confirmed|0                           |1
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEW

--- Comment #8 from Stéphane Guillou (stragu) <stephane.guillou at libreoffice.org> ---
As said in Comment 1, the behaviour for rows and columns is as expected:
different settings yield different results *when using keyboard keys to resize
columns and rows*.

Options in help:
https://help.libreoffice.org/7.4/en-US/text/swriter/guide/tablemode.html

Keybindings:
https://help.libreoffice.org/7.4/en-US/text/swriter/guide/table_sizing.html

However, Amalia is right in Comment 7: the setting "Variable" for resizing
cells using the keyboard shortcut does *not* change the table size like it
would for rows and columns. It works exactly as "Fixed" would.

Either:
- the setting is "variable" setting is buggy for cells; or
- the documentation should mention that the "variable" setting is not
applicable to cells because it is unclear what should happen to the other
rows/cells if the size of the table were to increase.

The question is: what should happen with the other rows if the table size were
to increase because of one cell's width increases? Should the whole column
increase in width, and therefore single cell "variable" would be the same as
column "variable"?

Version: 7.4.2.3 (x64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 382eef1f22670f7f4118c8c2dd222ec7ad009daf
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19045; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-GB (en_GB); UI: en-GB
Calc: threaded

(Could not test with Ubuntu 20.04 + GNOME, see Bug 152232)


Referenced Bugs:

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103100
[Bug 103100] [META] Writer table bugs
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