[libreoffice-design] Inherited attributes on linked styles

Here I am again with some of my draft ideas about Writer ;)
Linked styles are one of those features that makes Writer Really
Great: to set up a chain of styles that inherits some characteristics
from a "parent" style helps a lot when you build a complex document.
But this feature, in the way it is implemented now have one flaw: it
is not possible, when editing a style, to tell apart which
characteristic is inherited from the parent style and which is unique
from the style considered. Only the font size shows the dependency
through a percentage, but even then if you set a 100 % this percentage
will be "translated" to the actual point size and you will lost any
visual reference that the size is determined by the parent style.
I think it would be great to have a sort of check box (or maybe just
an option on the list) to clearly state that the selected feature
comes from the parent style, something like the very rough mock-up
here:
https://sites.google.com/site/rgbmldcwriterideas/parent-style.png
What do you think?
Cheers
Ricardo

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