[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 106681] Feature Request: Ability to assign character styles to toolbar buttons...

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106681

--- Comment #4 from Thomas Lendo <thomas.lendo@gmail.com> ---
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #2)
> But rather than providing generic unassigned buttons to hold assignment of
> .uno actions to apply a Character Style--IMHO it would make more sense to
> provide for toolbar customization to show a drop list/split button that
> could display the assigned character style adjacent to the assigned
> paragraph style.
A drop list for character styles would be nice. But I assume 2 negative
aspects: Such a drop list needs much horizontal space in the toolbar and the
"average user" is not using drop lists - they are afraid of it, buttons are
much easier to choose and click. (I don't know any colleague that uses drop
lists, they like more visual widgets like the color picker or list picker.)

I like the initial idea of the bug that I could use the bold toolbar command to
assign the "strong emphasis" character style to characters/words without using
the Styles and Formatting sidebar. 

But I would go a step further:
Allow all paragraph, character and list styles to be linked to toolbar commands
(buttons), context menus and shortcut keys. With that the user could customize
LibreOffice to match his/her needs in using soft formatting.

In a next step many hard formatting commands could be replaced by similar
styles. Strong emphasis character style instead of bold. Emphasis character
style instead of italics. List styles in the list picker widget instead of hard
coded lists, etc. This would reduce the use of hard formatting in documents
without changing the user's workflow much.

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