Re: [libreoffice-design] feedback on #91781

Hi Pedro,

Pedro Rosmaninho wrote on 10-06-15 13:41:
> I guess it is controversial because there's a hostility of some LO users to
> allow direct formatting of the document instead of resorting to Styles.
> Therefore, some people consider that direct formatting should be hidden?
>
> However, many users do prefer to use direct formatting and competing Office
> suites provide easy access to direct formatting. I don't know why
> developers consider this to be a wrong approach?

From a trainer and migration consultant perspective, I see the mess and
grief and productivity loss, along with interoperability issues caused
by direct formatting.

> Making the access to direct formatting more difficult would just draw
> people away from LO to closed source office suites.

So the challenge - where the issues are about - is to make working with
Styles more natural, visible. If that comes with the price of a _little_
worse availability of direct formatting functions, I think that would be
worth it. But maybe that isn't even needed, looking at the great focus
of UX to make the best of LibreOffice.

Regards,
Cor

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