https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=61665

Rainer Bielefeld <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|CONFIRMED                   |UNCONFIRMED
           See Also|                            |https://issues.apache.org/o
                   |                            |oo/show_bug.cgi?id=10173
     Ever confirmed|1                           |0

--- Comment #7 from Rainer Bielefeld 
<[email protected]> ---
IMHO is not an appropriate reason.

Reset/Back buttons currently cause several problems because they do not work
reliably in all dialogs, Help is a mess, nobody knows about function.

So it is one option to remove these buttons. But there are other options like
to improve documentation, add more features, repair bad function and and and.

Without a careful weighing of benefit, costs, risks, possible further
development, cited knowledge why these buttons have been introduced and so on
no developer even will think about investing any time here.

Short example:
What if we decide that AOO shows result of changes in the document after
"Apply" (currently AOO does not have that feature). You gable around a little
with Writer Page Format, do some changes in Header, with page margins, Apply a
background color and so on, and every change you do appears in page view after
[Apply]. Finally you decide that everything is fine except Header borders. Now
you need a simple [Back][OK] in that dialog tab and everything except those
header borders will be

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