https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149407
--- Comment #29 from Telesto <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #28) > (In reply to sdc.blanco from comment #26) > > Telesto's mockup in comment 24 (attachment 193604 [details]) provides an > > interesting alternative to the OP. > > ... but still suffers from the problem I mentioned in comment #5 here and in > bug 148593 comment 6: It was more or less a partial mockup limited to arranging the Position Controls as contrast to the suggestion of sdc.blanco. So yes it has the same flaw. In principle I would agree with 'make it a coherent sentence' and "make a grammatically correct sentence", but I fear the bar being to high because that includes the sentence to be coherent in all (current and future) translations. And that's likely mission impossible. > * What is "positioning from left"? That's not gramattically-valid English > IIANM The "From Left" isn't really self-explaining. Aligning Left doesn't allow an offset. "From left" means, Left side (of defined area; for example Paragraph Area) + Off-set. No idea why this category being needed at all. Some could argue that "Left" + offset value = From Left internally, but without exposing this in the dialog. And I have no idea why you aren't allowed to define off-set "From Center" or "From Right" (I'm maybe overlooking something) As wondering: is the category "From Left" actually "From Right" for RTL? > * Left of what? Are positioning the paragraph's left edge or positioning it > to the left of something? Don't ask me where the defined area is actually located. The are highly specific; and because the are specific the become technical. So even help is using a technical description. It's not easy to understand for moderate user, IMHO. I have no clue what will happen, even when reading the help; and when it will produce the same result and in which cases it will differ. So my tendency is stick with default area :-). I'm rather visually orientated, so long technical descriptions are hard regards how well written > * Offset of what, from what? Offset from the (Left) alignment (going to the right). Offset in essence the same as Indent, I think > Re-laying-out of controls must also be accompanied by changing the labels > and possibly the semantics to match them. I agree. However having to consider all the dimensions at once is quite mind boggling/ mind numbing. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
