https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88989

--- Comment #3 from Bryant <[email protected]> ---
>From what I'm reading from your comment is that a) consistency with Word isn't
important (fair enough) and b) we should be using styles instead (which I take
issue with).

The reason I don't use styles is because I've inherited documents from my
adviser that don't use styles and for quick edits I don't feel like making a
bunch of styles and then making sure they're applied everywhere.

This is just my argument for the workflow I proposed in #1 to be a valid and
supported workflow by Writer.

But moving on to my, hopefully more compelling, UI consistency argument. It
seems to me that the Font Color split-button works contrary to all other uses
of it that I've encountered. Usually with split-buttons they have an alternate
set of options that modify the primary functionality in some way, though this
normally doesn't affect how the tool is used/applied. For example I've seen
paste split-buttons where there's a normal smart paste and then the advanced
options change the pasted item beforehand. And even in Writer there's the
highlighting tool where the advanced functionality sets a color first and then
enables the regular button functionality. And with colored-split-buttons in
particular, normally the advanced options ONLY affect the color setting for the
primary button. So the primary button is basically a short-cut for the advanced
button when the color setting doesn't need to be changed.

So it's quite unexpected when the Font Color split-button a) has different
functionality than what I would consider expected split-button behavior,
especially for colored-split-buttons, and b) differs from the behavior of the
highlight split-button.

I don't know the proper approach for continuing a bug discussion after it's
marked invalid, but I'll leave it as set for now.

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