https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153991
--- Comment #2 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #1) > -1 to bloat the sidebar. It should be kept as clean and easy to access as > possible. No it shouldn't. We already have the formatting toolbar, which limits us to only a few controls and only for the current language group. The sidebar has more, as well it should. And we should be able to change the character style at the cursor position, including the choices of other LG than the nearby character's. Suppose I want to write a word in German in a paragraph that is otherwise Arabic. How will I choose the typeface and size for it? With the current approach (and assuming I don't use the menus), I need to type it, then select it, then format it. This is a hassle, and is not even so easy with the conflicting directions of the stretches of text. Anyway, it can be be made less prominent than a full-fledged drop-down box, e.g. some kind of mini control on the top bar of Character (maybe like the language selection on the Linux/Windows panel), near the gear wheel; or a narrow icon before the typeface combo box. etc. > I'd expect the RTL/CJK attributes to be shown depending on the > text, which is actually the fact. This argument cannot be made before bug 148257 is resolved, as otherwise, one cannot set the language (nor language group) of text in LibreOffice. And the same piece of text may change its language due to typing or deletion of _other_ characters, nearby. Specifically, think of numbers and punctuation marks. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
