No colour-picking in 'follow-on' button bar dropdowns

[yoxi]

Funny that I never noticed this before. If you reduce your window size to the point where not all of the buttons in a button bar will fit on it, Neo/OOo adds a 'follow-on' dropdown list of the buttons that went off the end. However - buttons such as font/background/highlight colour, which have 2 functions, lose their main function in this dropdown list, which is the colour-picker aspect. There's no way to access the colour-picker from that dropdown, you can only choose the current colour again.

Obviously you could rearrange the button bar so that the colour items are over on the left to get around this, but it's less than ideal. I've posted this as an enhancement issue over at OOo, because OOo v3.1 builds still do this.

http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=99073

I thought I'd mention it here in case anyone comes asking if this is a Neo bug .

- padmavyuha

[James3359]

In my experience this was the behaviour in earlier versions as well.

There was a discussion here.

[sardisson]

Yeah, in a menu you can't distinguish between short click and long click, or normal click and click-and-hold, or whatever crazy thing it is that the OOo engineers determined changes the button behavior from "set color" to "choose color".

Smokey