https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168272

--- Comment #7 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #6)
> The use case is clear and common: Benjamin wants to add a landscape oriented
> page to the document to show a large table. 

Reading those words, a thought has occurred to me.

Is the use case you described really that simple? It seems to complect two
things: Adding a new page (sequence), and switching page sequence style.

Think about the equivalent w.r.t. paragraphs. When you want to add a new
paragraph to your document, with different styling, is there a special UI
function for doing so? No, there isn't: You add a new paragraph, then format it
differently, either with DF or by choosing a named style.

Why should this be different for page sequences? It shouldn't!

The user should not care about page sequence styles when adding a page break.
Instead, _after_ the break, the user should be able to DF the current page
sequence (e.g. make the pages landscape), or switch to a different named page
sequence style. Naturally, that DF or named style would only applied to the
pages beginning with the break.

If we went this way, we could actually _eliminate_ page sequence styles from
the page break insertion dialog altogether.

What do you all think? Dragan, Heiko?

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