I’m looking for a solution to lock inserted table-cells’ size, in writer document, against accidental click and drag any of their walls from their original position.
Is there, or will be, any way to achieve this protection?
I understand and share the need for such a feature but it is a bit contradictory with the concept of Writer table (as opposed to Calc table): each cell is sub-document by itself. As a Writer cell is supposed to contain text, its height (and the whole row) will auto adjust to text size.
Locking table geometry is most useful and needed for column width. This should be made through a “true” table style (not to be confused with present so-called table “styles” which are in fact equivalent to a set of macros blindly imposing their formatting on you). Unfortunately, the theoretical specification of such a style does not exist and its specification is really difficult to define (what should it address? how versatile should it be? etc.).
The only workaround is the one suggested by @fpy: when you’re satisfied with your table layout and contents, select it (completely) and Insert>Section with write protection enabled.
Note that this protects not only the “geometry” but also the contents which is no longer editable. To edit it, you must temporarily disable write protection.
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Ironic enough that it works, but unfortunately while I’m writing those cells I should not protect them because their content needs to remain changeable.
When I finish with it and I could lock them, then it doesn’t need to be locked, because I’m not fidgeting my mouse cursor over those cells any more.
It is what it is. 🫠
Maybe one day. 