https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162967

--- Comment #6 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #5)
> We discussed the topic in the design meeting and there was a broad consensus
> about this additional button in favor of convenience over simplicity. 

Another point which was made during the discussion is that of enabling this
more uniformly: There are several menubuttons which offer a part of the
functionality accessible from a fuller dialog: Borders is one, but we also
have:

* Line Width
* Line Style
* Border Style (in Calc at least)
* Line spacing
* Line Ends (Drawing toolbar)
* Underlyine style
* Numbering / Ordered List
* Bulleting / Unordered List

some of these offer _no_ facility for opening the full-featured dialog; others
offer differing facilities, e.g. bottom bar-button with or without an icon. It
would possibly be useful to unify the way one access the full set of
properties. A uniform "UI idiom" would make the visibility of such a UI element
feel less crowding.

This exists in MSO, where each region within one of the ribbons (or at least
the regions of some of the ribbons) has a tiny square gadget at the bottom-left
corner, which, when clicked, opens the relevant dialog.

IMNSHO, it seems the obvious candidates for such a uniform mechanism for us
are:

1. Bottom bar/button
2. Small gadget on the "title bar" of the menubutton's menu/pane.

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