[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 88474] EDITING: Selection Mode is Reset to ‘Standard selection’ with Esc

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88474

Heiko Tietze <tietze.heiko@gmail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Keywords|needsUXEval                 |
                 CC|                            |olivier.hallot@documentfoun
                   |                            |dation.org,
                   |                            |xiscofauli@libreoffice.org
          Component|LibreOffice                 |UI

--- Comment #3 from Heiko Tietze <tietze.heiko@gmail.com> ---
The design team talked about the issue on 2017/Apr/20, from the minutes:

+ currently when you cancel the selection the mode is reverted from Adding, for
instance, to standard
+ pro reverting to standard (as today): cancel is not the normal operation and
mostly users expect it to be reverted
+ con: other tools keep the manually set mode until the user changes it back
+ Microsoft toggles selection mode per alt (block mode) and ctrl (addition)
(but not in combination)
+ there is an inconsitency between keyboard use that reverts the selection and
the toolbar/menu, which keeps the mode
+ would prefer the Microsoft way to use only keyboard accelerators (that are by
nature temporarily) (Heiko)
+ LibreOffice has shortcuts https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Selection_Mode
(Jay)
+ We have ctrl/shift/alt + left mouse for the different modes so could remove
the static switch (Heiko)
+ feedback is needed, e.g. different icons in statusbar (Tomaz), and ideally
also with the cursor (Jay)
+ decision is to keep the static selection, make it consistent over the UI,
make it really static and keep it after eascape
  but the prefered method is to use the keyboard accelerators

Summary:

1. Provide feedback about the mode by changing the statusbar icon and with a
modified cursor
2. Make the selection via menu static and keep it unless the user switches back
(no revert on escape, ctrl+V)
2a. Make the behavior consistent over the input methods
3. Keep the temporarily modification with keyboard accelerator as the preferred
method
3a. Check that this method works perfectly in all modules (CC Xisco)
4. Update the documentation accordingly (CC Olivier)

(Removing UX)

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