https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165507
--- Comment #15 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Shai Berger from comment #14) > I see two ways to handle this. > > One is a boolean control which modifies the sense of the (existing) > alignment Left and Right buttons, to be direction-sensitive. When it's off, > things are like now; when it's on, the buttons choose Start or End according > to the direction of the paragraph. I would say that the suggested boolean control is a non-sequitur. I mean, of course it's technically feasible if we force an app to behave a certain way, but - that's not how LO toolbar buttons work, generally: A button corresponds to a(n UNO) command. We have 6 commands for the 6 kinds of alignment. Without breaking the the toolbar code with special-casing of these particular buttons, a button will only do one thing, which is trigger one of these 6 commands. Also, even if this would not be technically inadvisable - it would still be meaningless, because a selection may have multiple paragraphs, with different directions. Finally, "things are like now" will not an acceptable default; and whatever is not the default - will be what almost-everybody users, since very few people play with advanced settings. If I focus on your "when it's on" suggestion - this needs to be "fleshed out" as a suggestion, by answering the questions I posed at the bottom of comment 4. > The other -- less elegant, but probably easier to do, and I thought of it > first, so I might as well record it here -- is to put the Start/End buttons > in a toolbar sub-menu (like the one for spacing). Then we only need to show > them with a specific paragraph as context, so we can pick the right icon; > and we're free to position them one above the other, so no need to switch > places. So, for this alternative - are you suggesting the toolbar have the four buttons it has now, plus a kind of a menubutton? Or - just a menubutton always? Also, I don't see why we would only need to show them "with a specific paragraph as context" - the selection could encompass multiple paragraphs. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
