https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147769
--- Comment #11 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #10) > We discussed this topic in the design meeting. > > First of all, LibreOffice is not a Microsoft clone. We have different users > and many "inventions" by MS are driven by marketing. That's true. However, selecting all items with a given style is not a "sexy feature", and it is inconceivable that it was thought up by marketing. So that's a straw man. > Some classic workflows are just better. You're sort of contradicting yourself. Selecting all content with a given style _is_ a classic workflow. It has existed for... at least 25 years and probably earlier in Microsoft Word. And I would not be surprised if other apps with content in different styles or categories have allowed selecting all items from the same category. If you're thinking about text editors - those operate under the basic conception of "all text being equal" - a text file has text, not inherently structured data. > The supposed workflow is using Find & Replace, which is > inconvenient/unfamiliar for some. That is a workflow only for some of what one might wish to do, as we have already established. > However, to select paragraphs in order to > modify the formatting is also really not straight-forward On the contrary, it is very straightforward. You see some combination of formattings in the Styles side bar, you select all of that content (e.g. via a right-click on the styles side bar entry), and you change it: You create a new style with it, you apply some manual but uniform formatting to it etc. This is straightforward and convenient in that you don't have to switch focus to another dialog, nor use any special UI. > and dangerous > since the selection could be overwritten (and this is not a use case). Come on, that's not a serious argument, and you know it. Is Ctrl+A dangerous since it selects all of the text and lets you overwrite it? Or even holding down Shift and pressing Ctrl+End? Obviously not. We have Undo in case one accidentally deletes something. > So the recommendation is to not implement a function to select multiple > paragraphs by their style. However, I'd like to get more input, adding some > experts on this matter. I'm not sure I can help with that... -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
