https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151322
Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Depends on| |35538 --- Comment #6 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #5) > The dropdown button is discussed as solution for multiple variants of > slantness in bug 35538. Suggest to resolve => WF (no icon change), or > forward to the documentation team (component => documentation). First, let's put the documentation aside, this issue is not mainly about documentation. Second, I agree that the discussion of a menubutton/multi-button set can stay on bug 35538 only, especially since there's already some discussion of it there; so I'm marking bug 35538 as blocking this one and will comment there. So, while bug 35538 is not being worked on, let's rephrase the remaining spectrum of options I've suggested, and in fact I'll add another one: 1. Change the oblique-I to italic-i on the button, do nothing else. 2. Change the oblique-I to italic-i on the button, never let it select the oblique variant of the font. 3. Display _either_ oblique-I or italic-i on the button, depending on whether pressing it will apply oblique or italic (which in turn depends on what the font family provides). While option (3.) may seem a little weird, it will harmonize the ambiguity of the button's behavior with the choice of icon - and then, if/when we make the button behave more predictably (in bug 35538), we would also make its icon predictable again. Also, such icon variability is not without precedent: the bullets and the numbering buttons change their icon depending on whether we're in an LTR or RTL paragraph. I like option (3.) right now; and option (1.) would also be an improvement. Option (2.) achieves perfectly predictability/consistency of using the button, but at the price of "hiding" direct applicability of the oblique form and a strong divergence from the behavior of many common font-formatting UI schemes including MS Office. What do you (Heiko and others) think? Referenced Bugs: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35538 [Bug 35538] Handling of fonts with more than 4 styles (R/B/I/BI) is suboptimal -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
