https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160096

--- Comment #13 from ady <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Julien Nabet from comment #12)
> No, the checkbox is just labeled:
> "Show error message when invalid values are entered"
> not
> "Show error message when invalid values are entered or don't show error and
> disable validity list".

We can agree that the checkbox label might not be completely accurate regarding
the resulting behavior. That might be the reason for the whole "is it a bug or
not" question (and the origin for tdf#159595, which could had been avoided).

The matter of the label and the adequate Help content could be solved as a
consequence of this report too (see my comment 7), but the main point is to
make this less traumatic and more compatible.


> 
> So you'd like a separate checkbox to disable validity list and that's ok for
> me
> but disabling error message shouldn't mean disabling validity list.

With the Error message checkbox disabled, it has been like that for 3+ decades,
and also in Excel (according to other posts in this report). The simpler and
pragmatical solution – for users, please remember us – is to adapt the label
and the Help content (and/or tooltip), instead of breaking prior behavior just
because of a language inaccuracy.

> 
> > 
> > * The patch in tdf#159595 is about the error alert being DISABLED.
> Yes

With the Error message checkbox enabled, we have 3 possible alternative
status/behavior, depending on the type of error. We get the forth
status/behavior by disabling the checkbox. Adding a separate checkbox in order
to obtain the same alternative as we already had before the very recent patch
in tdf#159595 seems not wise.

We are forcing users to an unnecessary change in their spreadsheets, plus the
potential import/export incompatibility, plus users having to change their
already-known workflow from other spreadsheet tools (learned years ago and
still valid in other tools) in order to adapt it to something else – tdf#159595
is only1 month old ATM. What for? For a language inaccuracy and the need for
Help content improvement???

@Heiko,

Please re-consider this. This is not a hard one.

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