https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57488

--- Comment #1 from Matt Rosin <[email protected]> ---
The blinking exclamation point that appears inside the "..." button next to the
Additional Styles checkbox in the Edit Index/Table dialog is difficult to
understand.

"What did I do wrong?" the user thinks.

On clicking the button, no error message appears. 

"There is some error important enough to show an exclamation point, but it
doesn't tell me what!"

This kind of UI interaction stems from an apparent intention to be helpful, but
there is a hidden logic tree used to check validity of the inputted outline
styles setting yet the user is not notified of which point in the tree caused a
failure. This should be fixed.

And the "..." button and dialog should be renamed so people can talk about it
without grimacing, and search for help about it.

Also, this "..." button and the Styles tab in the same dialog seem to have
conflicting purposes but it is mysterious to the user. Why would a user style
being set to level 1 in the Styles tab not be reflected in the "..."? How
strange.

Why would setting user style in the "..." dialog work, but setting it in the
Styles tab not work? Again strange.

This Edit Index/Table interface is a byzantine mess, and I am sorry if it was
fixed in a later version but somehow I doubt it, hence the bug report.

Thank you for your time.

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