https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169975
--- Comment #5 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Justin L from comment #2) > IMHO this is NOTABUG. Well... it's at least a conundrum. And the fact we have a conceptual/semantic inconsistency between the Menu+Toolbar UI mode and the Tabbed UI mode _is_ a bug, although not exactly the bug Jeff was complaining about. In the Format > Columns... dialog, you can either change the number of columns of a page style (which is itself conceptually broken; it should have been DF of the page sequence; see bug 161078), or you choose to apply to "current selection", and what that does is: 1. Create a new section 2. Place the selected text in that section 3. Introduce a kind-of-anonymous section style with columns, and apply it to the new section (can we call this DF'ing the section? Maybe) which is quite different than the the page style functionality. Users are definitely surprised if they set N columns once one way, then again M columns other way, they get M columns in the section within one of the N columns on the page - quite surpising. And that itself may merit a bug report about UI inconsistency. > It is not misnamed. It indeed does INSERT, and what it inserts is a SECTION. > (It just happens that the only sensible way to insert columns is to use a > section to do it.) I'm afraid I have to agree. I don't like that I have to agree, because when I hear the word "section", I don't think "oh, a change in the number of columns". A section is a poorly-fleshed-out concept in LO vis-a-vis the user; and many users would think of MS Word sections, which have their own page styles. In MSO, the page-level columns and section-level columns are the same thing. > Admittedly, a tooltip that uses the word "columns" would make sense. > Something like "Insert section (with columns)" or "Insert section or > columns" (although the second isn't technically as accurate it sounds a bit > more natural for the typical user). Indeed, the choice of widgets for that minidialog is a bit questionable. OTOH, the Table mini-dialog doesn't have the words "Rows" and "Columns". > The section dialog can easily be reached by right-clicking somewhere in the > newly-created section. Easy but not easily discoverable. It's not so easy to guess that's how you're supposed to get to it. And - if is problematic, UX-wise, that there are no toolbar/tab bar buttons for controlling the number of columns in the current section, while we do have such a button for number of page-style columns. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
