[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 92056] underline dropdown

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92056

--- Comment #12 from Andrew <android2772@gmail.com> ---
> The ability to easily choose a dropdown line style, without going
> through the dialog, could be very useful feature.

yes it would be a very useful feature... to also have with strike through and
over line. 

> In general I don't like the idea of a dropdown with commands that are not a
> variation of the main button. Dropdown items should either belong to the
> same toggle group as the main button, so that they can replace each other
> (like text alignment, or shapes), 

why is so hard to think of this not as just the underline button but the line
button. under, through, over. These really are not that different just their
position related to characters.  Would you have a strike through and over line
split button? because they could have line styles too. if they could use the
same split button why can't they be in the same split button?

> or there should be no main button (which is not an option for underline as
> it's much used). Other then that it's too confusing, and also highly 
> undiscoverable for a new user, that would never ever think of looking for
> strike through under "Underline", unless he already knows it's there.

> Also, if there is no enough room for strike through on the toolbar, it could
> be a hidden button by default. That's exactly the purpose of hidden buttons,
> to have there much useful buttons, when there is no enough room for them by
> default, so that a user could easily add them, without wasting time with the
> toolbar customization dialog. Rarely used buttons, shouldn't be in the
> toolbar anyway, even as hidden buttons.

So because these buttons are rarely used they should be hidden, actually they
should not even be hidden buttons. yet putting them in the split buttons drop
down makes it hard for people discover them...  tell me how are people going to
discover a hidden button/button not in the toolbar at all?  It took me a long
time to discover that you could customize the tool bars and I am an advanced
user.

But even the newest user to office tools will eventually decide to look at
whats in the split button just like they will when they choose more colors.

again IMHO I don't think it is a big deal at all to place these three buttons
in the same split button. as they do relatively the same thing. Put a line
somewhere around text.

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