https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46517
--- Comment #21 from [email protected] --- > Michael Stahl > oh wait, there is one reason to prefer the status quo: if we change > it there is guaranteed to be at least one user who files a regression bug :) Yeah, that's the spirit! Don't ever change the status quo! How about a constructive discussion? Yes, changing the current behavior might startle LibreOffice users, but it might please others. And it will surely please Microsoft Office users ... > Rainer Bielefeld 2013-02-21 21:55:29 UTC > The subscript / superscript buttons work exactly as other formatting ... > Why should we see that as a problem for Subscript/superscript, but not > for other character formatting? You are right, it does apply to all formatting! And in my opinion, it would be for the better to change it to "new formatting only applies to newly typed characters, or currently marked characters". Since this would change LibreOffice' behavior quite substantially, it is worth a discussion. Viewed logically, I don't see why anything should affect non-marked characters. >From a user's point of view, there are three cases: 1) Apply formatting to a whole word 2) Apply formatting to characters within a word 3) Apply formatting to newly typed characters within a word Let's see how those two scenarios can be handled currently: 1A) Click into a word and apply formatting 1B) Double-click the word and apply formatting 2A) Mark character and apply formatting 3A) Type, mark typed characters and apply formatting If the behavior would be changed to my suggestion, 1B and 2A would still apply and 3A would change for the better to "Choose formatting and type character". It sounds like an unnecessary change, but in my case it would solve a lot of undo actions due to involuntary formatting. But then again, I might be a special case. I despise everything a program does all by itself, probably because my brain is not able to anticipate what the software is going to do (read "what the programmers think is best for the user"). > NOTABUG again? You might not consider it as a bug per se, but this was the only way I saw to bring up the issue. I subscribed to [Libreoffice-ux-advise], but discussing matters there is extremely difficult, because there are several different discussions going on at the same time. In addition, as a "n00b and ordinary user" I found it impossible to get a discussion going with all the "pros". If one of the "pros" is against something, while most of the others might not disagree but simply don't care that much, it's the end of the "discussion". -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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