[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 86039] SIDEBAR: Styles gallery tab

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86039

Jay Philips <philipz85@hotmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #13 from Jay Philips <philipz85@hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to Tomaz Vajngerl from comment #12)
> Jay, do you think this still makes sense when we would have style sets
> (Quick styles)? I guess a normal user just wants to pick one consistent look
> he likes and maybe manually tweak some thing here and there. With themes he
> can in addition change the fonts and colors which should already make him
> happy.

Well this implementation had styles sets which i referred to as group styles in
the description, but also allowed the user to play with a variety of different
styles for different parts of the document and then likely they would tweak it
to match with similar colors if thats what they wanted. With styles sets, you
cant mix and match different parts of one style set with another, which is
possible with this implementation.

> I think we should rather think about how to make it simpler to change a
> style and bring styles closer to the user. Currently our sidebar is very
> direct formatting oriented as the styles are totally separate, but we could
> tweak that. For example I like how iWork Pages (13) shows the current style
> on the top and the user can has an easy access to other styles from there.
> Also the user can see quickly if any direct formatting was applied and has
> the option to update the style.

Yes the most important feature missing from the sidebar in writer's properties
tab is style selection (bug 73071). If its possible to implement iWork Pages'
mechanism of showing that a paragraph style has been modified by direct
formatting and provide an easily means of updating it, i think it would be a
good feature to have in the sidebar. In my first mockup of the sidebar
properties tab (bug 83830), i had an update button next to the drop down.

https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/attachments/download/196/Proposal---Explained.png

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