https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95274
--- Comment #32 from Michael Bauer <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #31) > If the request is to make auto detection work reliably we have to wait for > experts/volunteers. Perhaps we could invite some? > If you think that manually picking the language has room for improvements we > can discuss this. I don't understand why you cannot change the > paragraph/character style - okay, writing a dictionary where you have to > switch from one language to the other every second word... And if you have a > valid use case, is there a solution that wont bother average users? I have no research data on this but my experience with being sent other peoples documents is that 9 out of 10 people don't use styles because they are either unfamiliar with the concept or find them too cumbersome for short documents where you don't want to spend time defining a style but may wish to change the font or indeed write in a different language. Styles are really useful for something large, like writing a book or dictionary (and I do use them for those) but if I'm writing a letter and just want to use a different para spacing or font, there's no point in faffing about with styles, you just change it ad-hoc as you'll most likely never use that configuration again. So styles as a default path to setting the proofing locale are a) not realistic when considering the default behaviour of everyday users and b) not quick enough. MS Office has a *really* simple and intuitive way which we could emulate: 1 open a doc and type somethimg, Word will try and guess the language, same as LO 2 if it guesses wrong, in Word you just single left click at the bottom of the window where the locale is indicated (with or without selecting text). That brings up a list of locales (the top 4 are those with dictionaries installed, the rest is an alphabetical list of ALL locales Word supports from Afrikaans to Yoruba). Click on the one you want, click ok, done. 2 is where LO fails. I think it's trying to do the wrong thing, because if you click on the locale, it does try to bring up a list of locales but the way in which it chooses the 2-3 locales is broken. However it chooses those is at least partly broken. For an easy fix (to my mind), the locale suggestions should be limited to installed proofing dictionaries and (if different) the LO UI locale (as some locales have a localized UI but no proofing). A slightly more complex fix would be to then fix the "More" option that appears in that window to bring up NOT the font settings but a list of locales/languages like Word does where you can simply do an ad-hoc selection of the locale/language for a document or selection without having to resort to styles or font associations. Here's an easy challenge: open a blank document in Word and one in LO. Type a random selection of characters. Now try to set the language of that selection to Yoruba and time yourself. I bet it takes you a LOT longer to do that in LO compared to word. (with a document open in word with a word pre-typed, it takes me 7:86 seconds to set that word to Yoruba. In LO, after 15 seconds, I'm still wondering if I should click More or Set Paragraph Language > More and even longer wondering why both of those options bring up the Font menu) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
