Bug 105465

Summary: Make the "Automatic" color a real checkbox
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Telesto <telesto>
Component: UIAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: normal CC: heiko.tietze
Priority: medium    
Version: 4.3.7.2 release   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Crash report or crash signature: Regression By:
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Bug Blocks: 85184    
Attachments: Screenshot of the issue

Description Telesto 2017-01-21 13:36:43 UTC 
Description:
When resetting to Font color to default setting by selecting Font color 'Automatic' (using the toolbar) I always get an uncomfortable feeling. It has the same look as 'No Fill' for the Highlighting tool.  

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Writer
2. Select the Font Color color picker arrow and select 'Automatic' 
3. Select the Highlighting tool color picker arrow and select 'No Fill'  

Actual Results:  
Font Color 'Automatic' has the same look as 'No Fill' for the Highlighting tool.

Expected Results:
I personally would prefer something less confusing. For example same look as setting direct formatting to black. 


Reproducible: Always

User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_1) AppleWebKit/602.2.14 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.0.1 Safari/602.2.14
Comment 1 Heiko Tietze 2017-01-27 09:51:31 UTC 
Created attachment 130714 [details]
Screenshot of the issue

The UI looks like a checkbox (although it does not work with unusual themes) but likely is just a button. And I guess the blank rectangle in the icon is a result from this bad design. So when the checkbox would be fully functional we could show the effective color depending on background or whatever is relevant instead of the blank. 

Alternatively, as a simple solution, a hatching could better indicate that the color is applied automatically.
Comment 2 Heiko Tietze 2018-04-20 14:44:56 UTC 
Let's go with a real checkbox.
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2019-04-21 02:52:48 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2021-04-21 03:52:01 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 5 QA Administrators 2023-04-22 03:27:21 UTC 
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