[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 88477] UI: No Different Icons for Selection Mode in Status Bar

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88477

tommy27 <barta@quipo.it> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEW
                 CC|                            |barta@quipo.it,
                   |                            |libreoffice-ux-advise@lists
                   |                            |.freedesktop.org
          Component|Writer                      |ux-advise
            Version|4.3.5.2 release             |3.6.0.4 release
     Ever confirmed|0                           |1

--- Comment #1 from tommy27 <barta@quipo.it> ---
I confirm that. the icon always look the same.
In OOo 3.3.0 and LibO 3.5.7 there was text instead of icon (STD, EXT, AGG, BLK)
and you had to left click on it to change the selection mode, while right click
had no effect

as far as I see that clickable text was changed into an icon in LibO 3.6.0
now either left or ricgjt click open a popup menu where to select the desired
mode, however the icon doesn't change according to the selection so you have no
visual hint to know which one is the current mode.

I think the icons should change somohow to give the user that visual hint that
the old text gave in the past

I'd leave the icon unchanged but with a small letter close to it, referring to
the selection mode:
- S -> for standard
- E -> for extended
- A -> for adding
- B -> for block

I don't know if those letter could be international or need to be customized to
match different locales (at least for what I know the same letter would work in
an Italian and English locale)

let's see what the UX-team thinks about.

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