https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42763

--- Comment #1 from [email protected] <[email protected]> 
2011-11-12 04:13:24 PST ---
Additional thoughts re: proposed solution B
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- it appears that all radio buttons in the "Paragraph Style: <Style>" dialogue
box currently always have a default option selected. Therefore a way to
indicate deferral to the parent style for radio box would be for clicking on a
currently-selected option to /remove/ that selection, leaving /nothing/
selected in the optiongroup. I think this would be reasonably clear, and of
course would toggle back and forth very easily.

- for combo boxes (e.g. "Before indent", "Scale width", etc), I have often
instinctively sought to "clear" these values by deleting all text in them, then
clicking / tabbing out. At the moment, if there is no text in a combo box when
it loses focus, a default value (0.00cm, 100%, etc) is substituted in. I'd
suggest that instead this could be taken as an indication that the user wishes
to clear that property and defer back to the parent style. The default value
can still be easily entered, either by hand or via the "Standard" button in the
bottom right of the "Paragraph Style: <Style>" dialogue box, and as I
mentioned, I've often tried this method intuitively.

- this leaves checkboxes. Obviously they can't be dealt with in the same way as
radio buttons, since un-checking a checkbox which is checked in the parent
style is a legitimate expression of preference. Altogether I think there are 25
checkbox options in the "Paragraph Style: <Style>" dialogue box:

Organizer > AutoUpdate
Indents & Spacing > (2 options)
Alignment > (2 options)
Text flow > (5 options)
Asian Typography > (3 options)
Font Effects > (5 options)
Position > (2 options)
Asian Layout > Write in double lines
Outline numbering > (2 options)
Drop caps > (2 options)

Barring any flashes of insight, a "[Clear all]" button is still the best
solution I can think of for these. Obviously the "[Clear all]" button would
only apply to the currently visible tab, as does the existing "[Standard]"
button.

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