https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165299
Bug ID: 165299
Summary: Add direction indication to mock-preview in style
dialog
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 25.8.0.0 alpha0+
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: LibreOffice
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
In the Paragraph Style dialog as well as the Drawing Style dialog, we see a
preview-mockup in the corner of the dialog tab involving direction and
alignment. The mockup contains several gray bars representing a paragraph and
its surrounding paragraphs.
While the mockup indicates the alignment well enough, it does not indicate the
choice of direction in any way. I believe we should consider introducing some
visual indication of the direction.
Without getting into the specific bikeshedding of what indication that would be
exactly, I believe it should be possible for it to be both easy-to-understand
while also not interfering with the each of understand what the alignment would
look like. Perhaps something involving arrows/directed triangles on top of the
bars, at the beginning, on all bars or just the first one; or replacing the
beginning edge of the first bar, e.g., very roughly:
|>========
==========
====
vs
==========
==========
====
which we have now.
Thus for example right-aligned LTR-text would look like this:
---------
---------
---------
======<|
=========
====
---------
---------
---------
while right-aligned RTL-text would look like this:
---------
---------
---------
=====<|
========
====
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---------
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