https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61137

--- Comment #9 from [email protected] ---
Yes, I think you understood my concern.

Having a way to edit the ranges in the "Manage" dialog would certainly provide
a way to fix the problem. That strikes me as a workaround however.

I'm unconvinced that the solution or the intended behavior is "intuitive", as
you put it. I never noticed the range in the Conditional Formatting dialog
until you pointed it out just now. It's certainly not the behavior of the
dialog that I "intuitively" expected: it is essentially ignoring the selected
range. And there is nothing in the menu entry that makes one think that is it
only intended to work on a single cell if existing.

And it's inconsitent: if the first cell of the selected range does not have any
conditional formatting, but other cells in the range do have such formatting,
they appear to be replaced by the new conditional formatting as I would expect.
So the behavior differs depending on the contents of the first cell - even if
that contents is essentially some junk formatting that you're trying to
replace.

The fact that 3.5 worked consistently for this operation also suggests that the
behavior is suboptimal.

Now that I know how it is supposed to work, I can probably work around the
behavior, even in 3.6 (just make sure that the first cell has no conditional
formatting), but it still seems weird to me.

In any case, calling it a "bug" is probably wrong; it sounds like it was
intentional (but misguided in my view) design. Even if it is a design that only
a programmer could love. :-)

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