[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 89960] Suggestion to Change Style Behavior in Relation to Direct Formatting

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89960

--- Comment #6 from Joel Madero <jmadero.dev@gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Octavio Alvarez from comment #5)
> Joel, can you provide references to the discussion of the (In reply to Joel
> Madero from comment #0)
> > There are essentially two ways that a user might apply a style:
> > 1. Select the style in advance, then start typing;
>
> By 'in advance', are you talking about the application of a style in an
> empty paragraph?

Yes - exactly how the bug that you closed demonstrated and as I explained last
night to you in IRC.

> > For #2 (have text already, then apply style)
> > *Suggest that a dialog appears if there is any direct formatting applied in
> > the selected text (i.e. if a word is italicized, bolded, etc…) that says
> > something like “do you want the style to overwrite any direct formatting in
> > the selected text”
> > **This can be similar to the dialog that appears in Calc if you copy/paste
> > into a cell that already has a value
> > **This should have an option to say “do this every time.”
>
> This forces the user to choose one or the other. If the user is unsure and
> does not click 'do this every time', the user will be interrupted on each
> style application until he makes up his mind.
>
> If the devs opt for going with this option, I suggest to use the word
> 'remove' instead of 'overwrite'.

Sure - it's UX though that decides not developers :)

> > This should avoid breaking the workflow of people used to the current
> > behavior, and add the ability to make it more intuitive for those who find
> > the current process counter-intuitive (those who want a style to be applied
> > uniformly every time).
>
> > Talking on QA channel and on user mailing list makes
> > me think that the current situation is counter-intuitive to a fair number of
> > people.
>
> Can you provide a URL to the discussion?

Obviously IRC chats are not logged and therefore there is no URL. But, last
night you heard from one of our most experienced developers (shm_get) who
agreed 100% with me. You can also talk to any of this list of people in IRC for
confirmation (beluga, colonolqubit, jphillipz, mjayfrancis, wantstohelp and
Sophie). Those are all experienced contributors)

As for the user thread - here is a link:
https://www.mail-archive.com/users@global.libreoffice.org/msg41274.html



@Cor - all I mean is that if you start a new paragraph, and no text at all has
been written, and then select a style, that style should remove any direct
formatting that has carried over from the previous paragraph and the style
should be applied *as defined.*

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