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Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2025 08:35:11 +0000
Subject: [Bug 166714] Make uno:SetOptimalColumnWidthDirect
(shift+alt+left/right) consider the whole column
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Heiko Tietze changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Hardware|x86-64 (AMD64) |All
Summary|SHIFT + ALT + LEFT|RIGHT |Make
|KEY |uno:SetOptimalColumnWidthDi
| |rect (shift+alt+left/right)
| |consider the whole column
OS|Linux (All) |All
CC| |erack at redhat.com,
| |libreoffice-ux-advise at lists
| |.freedesktop.org
Status|NEW |NEEDINFO
--- Comment #3 from Heiko Tietze ---
I think this is at least worth a discussion.
STR: A1 = "Lorem ipsum dolor", A2 = "Lorem ipsum dolor est" -> running the
function on A1 increases the column to the with of the first string, running it
on the A2 to this string. If you select A1:A2 starting from A1 it still
considers the length of A1.
While the function works on the current cell it might iterate through all cells
and works on the whole column. But maybe it is a bug (in the documentation as
well) since the fucntion SetMarkedWidthOrHeight() calls MarkToMulti(). And
double click on the header calls the same function from SetEntrySize(). Eike,
could you please add your wisdom.
To be considered, what should happen if multiple columns are selected? If the
function works not per cell but column doesn't it mean to respond to
selections?
Ultimately I tend to disagree with the enhancement request, if it's not a bug,
and keep the function simple. Double-click on the column header works as
expected.
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From bugzilla-daemon at bugs.documentfoundation.org Mon Jun 2 08:35:39 2025
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Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2025 08:35:39 +0000
Subject: [Bug 162767] LABELS DIALOG: Allow selection of number of labels and
position with label sheets
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Ever confirmed|0 |1
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From bugzilla-daemon at bugs.documentfoundation.org Mon Jun 2 21:20:36 2025
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Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2025 21:20:36 +0000
Subject: [Bug 166835] Warn when first introducing an
opened-file-format-incompatible aspect into a document
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From bugzilla-daemon at bugs.documentfoundation.org Mon Jun 2 21:20:32 2025
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Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2025 21:20:32 +0000
Subject: [Bug 166835] Warn when first introducing an
opened-file-format-incompatible aspect into a document
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From bugzilla-daemon at bugs.documentfoundation.org Mon Jun 2 21:22:04 2025
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Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2025 21:22:04 +0000
Subject: [Bug 166834] Show tracked-change comment on hover
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From bugzilla-daemon at bugs.documentfoundation.org Tue Jun 3 02:33:13 2025
From: bugzilla-daemon at bugs.documentfoundation.org (bugzilla-daemon at bugs.documentfoundation.org)
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2025 02:33:13 +0000
Subject: [Bug 166835] Warn when first introducing an
opened-file-format-incompatible aspect into a document
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--- Comment #1 from Telesto ---
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #0)
> For that reason I suggest that, when editing a file in a given format, and
> when we first introduce something into the document unsupported by the
> format, we could alert the user to this through:
>
> * An info-bar
> * A pop-up dialog
> * Some kind of visual indication in the status bar
>
> this alert could ask the user "do you really want to do XYZ?" Or it could
> just tell them that the last change breaks the file format.
Pointing out differences by individual warnings is as good as pointless. At
least for Writer. The document-model of LibreOffice being inherently different.
There are so many area's common cases where 'conversions occur' From image an
anchor conversion, styles, highlighting
A nice example: bug 125268. It's including a bunch of comments of handling the
compatibility matter..
Importing a file generated by MSO in LibO and saving it back to DOCX without
any change does already create quite a lot of differences.
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From bugzilla-daemon at bugs.documentfoundation.org Tue Jun 3 07:30:52 2025
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Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2025 07:30:52 +0000
Subject: [Bug 166835] Warn when first introducing an
opened-file-format-incompatible aspect into a document
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--- Comment #2 from Heiko Tietze ---
We pondered over this in the ESC considering the warning on save. Would be nice
to learn what exactly is not compatible. But it requires every single aspect to
be listed somehow in a table, hard to imagine.
Your proposal goes even further. You assume users load _and save_ alien formats
thinking only of Microsoft's proprietary file types. But how about reading a
simple text file in order to store as ODF? Or to improve an alien document and
eventually saving as ODF? Or CSV => ODS, MD => ODP, etc.
Sound to me like a hHuge effort with limited benefit, obviously
over-engineering.
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From bugzilla-daemon at bugs.documentfoundation.org Tue Jun 3 07:34:09 2025
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Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2025 07:34:09 +0000
Subject: [Bug 166834] Show tracked-change comment on hover
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--- Comment #7 from Heiko Tietze ---
Not against but the cut-off comments are likely not sufficient informative.
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From bugzilla-daemon at bugs.documentfoundation.org Tue Jun 3 20:47:02 2025
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Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2025 20:47:02 +0000
Subject: [Bug 166835] Warn when first introducing an
opened-file-format-incompatible aspect into a document
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--- Comment #3 from Eyal Rozenberg ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #2)
> We pondered over this in the ESC considering the warning on save. Would be
> nice to learn what exactly is not compatible. But it requires every single
> aspect to be listed somehow in a table, hard to imagine.
... which is exactly why I would not suggest that.
> Your proposal goes even further.
But it's not going in the same direction :-(
> You assume users load _and save_ alien
> formats thinking only of Microsoft's proprietary file types. But how about
> reading a simple text file in order to store as ODF? Or to improve an alien
> document and eventually saving as ODF? Or CSV => ODS, MD => ODP, etc.
The question of what format will eventually be saved is something I suggest
explicitly not caring about here. The reference is just the original format.
So, for example, if you open a CSV and, say, change the font size or text
color,
- you would get notified that you won't be able to save those changes in the
open file's original format. Yes, you might intend to save it as an ODS, but LO
doesn't know about that while you're only editing and have not saved-as. Once
you _have_ saved as - this is a non-issue. So, if you first save as ODS, then
change the font size - no warning.
Same for MD => ODP or any other change.
So, what's the big benefit here? If we have a warning-on-save anyway?
It's the fact, for at least one change - the first format-breaking change, the
user will be _fully_ aware of what they're doing and what they're risking. Yes,
it might not be the most critical change that might be lost, but we would not
need to keep track of different kinds of changes, nor will the user need to
rummage through their memory and decide what's important. The first
format-breaking change is the _best_ time to warn the user, and when they are
the least invested in format-breaking change and will be the least frustrated.
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From bugzilla-daemon at bugs.documentfoundation.org Tue Jun 3 21:25:55 2025
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Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2025 21:25:55 +0000
Subject: [Bug 166835] Warn when first introducing an
opened-file-format-incompatible aspect into a document
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--- Comment #4 from jan d ---
I would stick with warn-on-save. Aside of effort of implmentation,
wanr-on-incompatible-change seems to introduce a lot of open questions like how
"incompatible change" is defined, when we assume "editing" (with intent to
change the file in place) and when we assume "import" (with intent do store in
another format).
(an alternative pattern to warn-on-save is what some image editors do ?
differentiate between "save" (native format) and "export" (andthing else))
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From bugzilla-daemon at bugs.documentfoundation.org Tue Jun 3 22:06:56 2025
From: bugzilla-daemon at bugs.documentfoundation.org (bugzilla-daemon at bugs.documentfoundation.org)
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2025 22:06:56 +0000
Subject: [Bug 166835] Warn when first introducing an
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--- Comment #5 from Telesto ---
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #3)
> It's the fact, for at least one change - the first format-breaking change,
> the user will be _fully_ aware of what they're doing and what they're
> risking. Yes, it might not be the most critical change that might be lost,
> but we would not need to keep track of different kinds of changes, nor will
> the user need to rummage through their memory and decide what's important.
> The first format-breaking change is the _best_ time to warn the user, and
> when they are the least invested in format-breaking change and will be the
> least frustrated.
This would be the solution in the ideal world. However there is not even a list
of
format-breaking changes. And in case of Writer it's likely so common, that's
rather absurd to do this on case basis. At least if you take full compatibility
as the norm. There is so much emulation going on.
So you might get file which looks the same, but acts differently compared to
native generated one. Say a single style in Writer, becoming split 20
(paragraph) styles on docx export. Looks fine, but less useable. Defying the
point main for using (paragraph) styles.
Other alternatives
* Info bar appearing when you start editing a foreign format, some general
warning about non-standard file format
* Foreign formats opening in read-only. Forcing/proposing to save as native
format before editing. Related: Being able to (directly save (as) foreign
format XYZ suggest (full) compatibility. Save as should be limited to fully
supported formats. Else it would be better to put it under export. Technically
speaking; not sure if this being feasible from real world perspective
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From bugzilla-daemon at bugs.documentfoundation.org Tue Jun 3 22:10:57 2025
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Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2025 22:10:57 +0000
Subject: [Bug 166835] Warn when first introducing an
opened-file-format-incompatible aspect into a document
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--- Comment #6 from John Mills ---
I broadly agree with the statement/request that Eyal is making, if part of your
reason for using a particular file format is to ensure that any changes made to
the document be compatible with the original used file format then an info bar
like message could be helpful. I understand the logic of this request, as an
example, if I have spent an hour working on something and then my changes made
are "useless" because I will need to switch to another format that I did not
intend to use.
I would propose an info bar like message to explain this to the end user, if
the users then does not want these further dialogs displayed in the then
provide an option to dismiss them permanently.
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From bugzilla-daemon at bugs.documentfoundation.org Wed Jun 4 00:16:58 2025
From: bugzilla-daemon at bugs.documentfoundation.org (bugzilla-daemon at bugs.documentfoundation.org)
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2025 00:16:58 +0000
Subject: [Bug 166835] Warn when first introducing an
opened-file-format-incompatible aspect into a document
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--- Comment #7 from Harry ---
A default pop-up warning at start up, or during the edit, would be a good thing
before investing time with edits only to find out at SAVE TIME that the end
result would be undesirable.
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From bugzilla-daemon at bugs.documentfoundation.org Wed Jun 4 08:25:48 2025
From: bugzilla-daemon at bugs.documentfoundation.org (bugzilla-daemon at bugs.documentfoundation.org)
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2025 08:25:48 +0000
Subject: [Bug 166835] Warn when first introducing an
opened-file-format-incompatible aspect into a document
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--- Comment #8 from Heiko Tietze ---
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #3)
> It's the fact, for at least one change - the first format-breaking change,
> the user will be _fully_ aware of what they're doing...
Another example: You can direct format text as bold or via character style,
both are saved as to HTML (and I would argue this is always DF). IOW, you
have a technical perspective on data and a user POV, depending on expertise and
workflow.
If you warn the first time about "styles are not stored with HTML" users might
not care but if it comes to another incompatibility they will for sure. So you
have to do it for every single attribute. Same argument in comment 5.
I doubt the use case of Benjamin loading an "extra format", something that is
not primarily suited for text processors or spreadsheet apps like html, rtf,
csv etc., expecting a different function set works the same way. Expert users
probably not invest "hours of working" ending up in being surprised on save.
When it comes to "similar formats" like odf - docx, we should rather aim for
100% compatibility - and still get into situations where the proprietary format
has its limitation.
More generally: Why do we always care about other applications? We should
proudly present our work and only secondarily consider other tools. User
running LibreOffice are supposed to work with ODF - period.
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From bugzilla-daemon at bugs.documentfoundation.org Wed Jun 4 09:59:11 2025
From: bugzilla-daemon at bugs.documentfoundation.org (bugzilla-daemon at bugs.documentfoundation.org)
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2025 09:59:11 +0000
Subject: [Bug 166835] Warn when first introducing an
opened-file-format-incompatible aspect into a document
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--- Comment #9 from Telesto ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #8)
> More generally: Why do we always care about other applications? We should
> proudly present our work and only secondarily consider other tools. User
> running LibreOffice are supposed to work with ODF - period.
I fully support this in principle. Would give more freedom, instead of constant
compromising functions and such on foreign formats. And well file formats
become probably less of an issue with cloud solutions.
A bold move would be that instead the naging non-standard file format dialog
forcing to save into native format. With some setting in the options dialog
"Load and Save" to overrule this setting.
This would prevent irreversibel dataloss because of file-format differences
However this still doesn't fix the case of newbie opening/editing using foreign
format and expecting to be able to (a) save it back into that format (b) with
100% compatibility
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