[Bug 163805] Cant color table cells in Impress using fill tool from menubar

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163805

Aron Budea <aron.budea at gmail.com> changed:

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           Keywords|                            |needsUXEval

--- Comment #5 from Aron Budea <aron.budea at gmail.com> ---
m_a_riosv is right that the control isn't for tables. In the Table toolbar,
there is a two-step control for setting the background, first one selects the
Area Type/Filling, then when it's set to Color, one can set Fill Color
(essentially the latter is the same setting as the one in the Properties dialog
mentioned by m_a_riosv).

Is this setting cumbersome and unintuitive? Yes.
Are tables inconvenient to use in Impress in general? Yes.
(eg. the toolbar control is only updated to show the current cell's setting if
the cell is selected, not when the cursor is in the cell)
Should the setting be improved? Yes.

I think the mentioned setting not working is just a smaller symptom of the UX
problems with setting background color (indeed, Drawing toolbar isn't where one
should look for cell background color setting), and this could use input from
the UX team.
Would also be good to have a comprehensive approach that includes Writer and
Calc (eg. Writer has a control for setting table background color in a somewhat
unintuitive place in the sidebar), plus consider how other office products
solve this.


Referenced Bugs:

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100366
[Bug 100366] [META] Impress/Draw table bugs and enhancements
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