[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 76825] UI: Styles drop down menu is too narrow in Libreoffice Writer (comment #16)

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76825

Jay Philips <philipz85@hotmail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|UI: Styles drop down menu   |UI: Styles drop down menu
                   |is too narrow in            |is too narrow in
                   |Libreoffice Writer          |Libreoffice Writer (comment
                   |                            |#16)
         Whiteboard|BSA NeedsDevEval            |BSA NeedsDevEval
                   |bibisectRequest             |

--- Comment #16 from Jay Philips <philipz85@hotmail.com> ---
Starting with LO 4.0, we show entries in the styles drop down not as simple
text but as styled text.

Bug 83008 (attachment 105195) states that if you have long style names the drop
down doesnt auto resize wide enough to fit the style names.

This bug was opened because of the changed in 4.2, which Maxim stated was done
by Keith Curtis (
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2013-December/058146.html ),
where the control was shrunk as it looked to wide in Gnome 3. The shrinking of
the control caused the default style drop down in english to have letters
cropped (attachment 96646) as drop down width isnt been resize wide enough.

Samuel's change to the control width in comment 10 recovered half of the space
removed by Keith, which stopped the cropping of the default english style
names, but bug 62081 introduced a drop down submenu button to each entry which
overlaps some of the letters in long names (attachment 112288).

To solve this problem we need to

1) Make the minimum size of the drop down be 180px
2) Accurately calculating the needed space to fit the styled text and add
additional space for the drop down submenu button.

(In reply to Joel Madero from comment #15)
> MAB should be set to highest. What is weird is that the person who added
> this to the MAB list said it's been a problem since 4.0 but the original
> poster said 4.2....

This doesnt need to be bibisected as it is not a regression in 4.0 as the drop
down changed from simple text to styled text in 4.0.

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