[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 80617] New: UI: Simplification of status bar page numbering

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80617

          Priority: medium
            Bug ID: 80617
                CC: libreoffice-ux-advise@lists.freedesktop.org
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
           Summary: UI: Simplification of status bar page numbering
          Severity: enhancement
    Classification: Unclassified
                OS: All
          Reporter: philipz85@hotmail.com
          Hardware: Other
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
           Version: 4.2.5.2 release
         Component: ux-advise
           Product: LibreOffice

The status bar page numbering system is quite confusing, especially to new
users, especially when you have multiple page styles in a document. Examples of
this can be found in <
http://www.microsoft.com/investor/reports/ar13/docs/2013_Annual_Report.docx >
where on one page it shows 'Page 4 / 302' and then on the next it shows 'Page 1
 5 / 302'. I also came across a document not so long ago that some pages in the
document looked like 'Page 2  1 / 3' and others looked like 'Page 3 / 3'
because LibO shrinks page numbers that look like 'Page 3  3 / 6' into 'Page 3 /
6'. As i dont know where the file is that i saw this in, i was playing around
to recreate it and LibO showed me a page number 'Page v / 5'.

I finally decided to send this issue in when i came across a tweet yesterday of
a similar issue < https://twitter.com/Rosella500/status/482578903115247616 >
which the user stated the status bar showed it like this 'Page 1/3, Page 0/3,
Page 1 3/3'.

As the actual page's page number is an optional thing to be displayed, i think
the better means of displaying the actual page's number is after and not before
and to always show it, even if its equal to the numbered page number. e.g.
'Page 5 / 302 ( 1 )', 'Page 5 / 302 ( v )'. I also think a tooltip would be
quite useful to explain this.

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