https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163503

--- Comment #11 from Mike Kaganski <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Khaled Hosny from comment #10)
> So every current LibreOffice Math user uses 100% of the symbols in the
> panel?

Please re-read:

> See the clear difference between:
> 
> * We show all math operations on the panel, even though you are likely to
> use only a subset of it, because we can't reasonably guess which operations
> you would need; and it makes no sense to have a separate panel for each
> thinkable set of math operation;
> 
> and
> 
> * We show Western, Arabic, and Persian stuff on a single panel, even though
> we clearly understand, that a user will need to use only one set of these
> three at a time.

These two are completely different; one is not a justification for the other.

> Why a couple or so more symbols suddenly making it unusable?

Because it's not "a couple"; and I repeat: it is not a problem *for Western
users*, but for *every user* who has to decide *if similar options for the same
task, just from different cultures* fit their use case - which is 100%
different from choosing from different options belonging to same culture.

An Arabic user, who works with formulas following Arabic rules, needs to have a
panel with the set covering *those* conventions, not Western. Yes, there may
(and will) be overlap; that needs to repeat on every such panel - Western,
Arabic, whatever. Greek is common? Repeat it three times. Or five times. It
doesn't matter. In the end, we can invent a mechanism of automatic generation
of these panels based on some "belongs to set X, Y, Z / universal" flags.

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