https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89960
Bug ID: 89960 Summary: Suggestion to Change Style Behavior in Relation to Direct Formatting Product: LibreOffice Version: Inherited From OOo Hardware: All OS: All Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: enhancement Priority: medium Component: ux-advise Assignee: libreoffice-b...@lists.freedesktop.org Reporter: jmadero....@gmail.com CC: libreoffice-ux-advise@lists.freedesktop.org There are essentially two ways that a user might apply a style: 1. Select the style in advance, then start typing; 2. Have text already written and then select it, and apply a style. Suggestion to change behavior of the interaction between styles and direct formatting to address these two different use cases. For #1 (selecting style in advance and then typing); *This should overwrite any direct formatting that has been previously applied in the document. **For a demonstration of why this should be the case, please take a look at bug 83726 ***Note that this would be equivalent of doing ctrl + m and then applying the style For #2 (have text already, then apply style) *Suggest that a dialog appears if there is any direct formatting applied in the selected text (i.e. if a word is italicized, bolded, etc…) that says something like “do you want the style to overwrite any direct formatting in the selected text” **This can be similar to the dialog that appears in Calc if you copy/paste into a cell that already has a value **This should have an option to say “do this every time.” This should avoid breaking the workflow of people used to the current behavior, and add the ability to make it more intuitive for those who find the current process counter-intuitive (those who want a style to be applied uniformly every time). Talking on QA channel and on user mailing list makes me think that the current situation is counter-intuitive to a fair number of people. Also I know at least a couple bugs have been closed because people were unaware of the direct formatting always taking precedent over styles. At least some users – myself included – think that if I have taken the time to define a style, I want that style to apply the same way, every single time. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Libreoffice-ux-advise mailing list Libreoffice-ux-advise@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-ux-advise