[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 127507] Allow choosing different alignment behavior

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127507

Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz@technion.ac.il> changed:

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--- Comment #11 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz@technion.ac.il> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #10)
> The options sound a bit random to me.

You mean "arbitrary" I believe.

> "Rightmost left boundary", why not
> leftmost of the right

Because those are only examples of aligning objects' _left_ edges; the right
edges can't factor into the choice of where to align at. I didn't want to have
dozens of examples in the file.

> And the
> current workflow with left-aligning plus moving is also not too laborious.

I'm sorry? After you've left-aligned things to a boundary which isn't the one
you wanted, you no longer have one of the previous left-boundaries to align to.
Also, there's the fact that you don't know in advance which left boundary it
will be, until you've experimented, and even then it's easy to forget since
there's no indication of the app's choice.

Heiko, it really seems like you're talking about this feature while rarely, if
ever, using it.


> But what could be an enhancement, easy to understand at the same time as
> supporting your needs, is to align with the first selected object. Would
> that be a compromise?

That would be essentially satisfactory.

However - in addition to implementing that logic, it's important IMHO for it to
be made clear to the user somehow that this is the policy (and not just by
trying and observing the result). Some ideas:

* There is currently no indication, in general, of which shape, in a set of
selected shapes, is the first selected. Perhaps that could be indicated, and
would be a hint regarding the effect of alignment.
* The toolbar buttons for alignment could perhaps have a hover behavior of
previewing the results of the alignment, or at least of a dotted line at which
the objects will be aligned.

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