https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168537
Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |NEW Resolution|NOTABUG |--- --- Comment #9 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Jonathan Clark from comment #8) > Writer has changed a bit since the last update. that's true. But: > it made more sense for Clear DF to be a > straightforward revert-to-style command. Clear DF _is_ the revert-to-style command. If we ever wanted a "clear some DF" command with an explanation in a tooltip or documentation about what's cleared and what isn't, then we can discuss that. Until that time - this remains a bug. > Today, though, I think the situation is reversed. Today it feels a lot more > natural to work with paragraph styles as direction-neutral, and instead > control direction via page style or DF. via Page (sequence) Style - sure. But direction DF is not different than setting the alignment, or the indentation, or line spacing etc. (To the extent that it could be considered different - that would mean taking it out of the Paragraph Style and making it something different, which is not on the table.) > In addition to user-initiated DF, we > now also have features that apply paragraph direction DF automatically. Which is a downside of our current implementation. But Clear DF should not be broken because of our implementation choice for direction autodetection. > Preserving this DF across common formatting operations is now more important > than it used to be. Maybe and maybe not, but "Clear DF" is not an operation across which we should preserve DF. > When this report was filed, the fix from bug 40496 also felt very strange > and bug-like. We didn't have Start alignment, so changing paragraph > direction also applied an alignment change as direct formatting. When direct > formatting was cleared, the direction would be kept per the fix, but the > alignment would be reset to Left. Today, this strange behavior doesn't > happen. The fix from bug 40496 now works in an intuitive way, so I think it > makes more sense to keep it as-is. It's true that it felt weirder back then. But - it was also more obvious that something was wrong. Now, the bug is a bit more subtle. And I do not want us to confuse people about what the direction setting is. So, I do not accept the change of status. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
