Bug 101461

Summary: No font color names when using toolbar in Writer
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Barney Kendrick <barney.and.karen>
Component: WriterAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal CC: aron.budea, ilmari.lauhakangas, jbfaure
Priority: medium    
Version: 5.1.4.2 release   
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)   
OS: Linux (All)   
Whiteboard: profile
Crash report or crash signature: Regression By:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 107636    

Description Barney Kendrick 2016-08-11 21:12:16 UTC 
Previous versions of Writer displayed the selected color's name when a color was selected using the buttons on the Text Formatting (Text, Background, and Highlight colors) toolbar buttons(I am using the default standard color grid). Version 5 does not show color names despite color names being displayed in the /Tools/Options/LibreOffice/Colors menu. This lack of a previous feature forces the user to count down the column of color squares to positively identify a color, which is still difficult for users who are insensitive to some subtly different color pairs or whose monitors are not properly calibrated.
Comment 1 Aron Budea 2016-08-11 22:48:08 UTC 
Can you give the LibreOffice version and distribution you're using, and check if OpenGL is enabled via menu Help -> About LibreOffice (what the string is after "UI Render:").

I tested in Ubuntu 16.04 with LibreOffice 5.1.4.2 and 5.2.0.4, and the tooltips for color names were visible in both.
Comment 2 Barney Kendrick 2016-08-13 00:56:17 UTC 
LibreOffice 5.1.4.2  (Automatically installed with upgrade from Ubuntu 14 LTS to 16.04 LTS)

"UI Render: default;" 

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (In reply to Aron Budea from comment #1)
> Can you give the LibreOffice version and distribution you're using, and
> check if OpenGL is enabled via menu Help -> About LibreOffice (what the
> string is after "UI Render:").
> 
> I tested in Ubuntu 16.04 with LibreOffice 5.1.4.2 and 5.2.0.4, and the
> tooltips for color names were visible in both.
Comment 3 Jean-Baptiste Faure 2016-08-13 07:47:44 UTC 
Not reproducible for me with Version: 5.2.0.4
Build ID: 1:5.2.0~rc4-0ubuntu1~xenial2
Threads CPU : 4; Version de l'OS :Linux 4.4; UI Render : par défaut; 
Locale : fr-FR (fr_FR.UTF-8)

Best regards. JBF
Comment 5 Barney Kendrick 2016-08-13 22:04:48 UTC 
Thank you, Buovjaga!  The LibreOffice profile had been corrupted when it was copied into LibreOffice 5.1.4.2 when Ubuntu was upgraded to 16.0.4 LTS  My first attempt at resetting the profile by deleting the registrymodifications.xcu file worked.
Comment 6 Buovjaga 2016-08-14 11:23:59 UTC 
Nice to hear that it got solved (and sad that corruption happened)! I'll set the status to WFM as that is what we use for these cases.