https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153600
Bug ID: 153600
Summary: Style organizer's "Next style"'s function not clear to
user
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: minor
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
In the Style dialogs, under the Organizer page, one of the rows is a drop-down
list with the label "Next Style".
The function of this (pair of) control(s) is not clear, especially to the
newbie user:
* Is this intended to reposition the style within the list of styles on the
sidebar?
* Does this have to do with some order of preference or falling-back among
styles?
* Is this the next style to edit in the style editing dialog, i.e. such that if
you select it you get to edit it?
It will probably not even occur to most newbie users that this might be "the
style to apply to a next object of the same category inserted after an object
with the style currently being edited." - for styles which have a different
"Next style", such as "List heading" with "List contents" or "Heading" with
"Text Body", you can guess. If you just get, say, "Addressee" and "Addressee" -
you would probably not guess.
So, what is to be done?
1. Label change
This is the easiest thing to do, but the choice of label is a bit tricky and it
would still be imperfect.
Concrete suggestions:
For a FOO style (Page, Character, Paragraph etc.),
"Next FOO Style"
"Succeeding FOO Style"
"Next Object Style"
"Succeeding Object Style"
2. Something else
I actually don't have a good idea here. Perhaps... the label could take the
full width of the drop-down list, and have a descriptive sentence about when
the "Next Style" choice gets applied? I don't know.
--
You are receiving this mail because:
You are the assignee for the bug.
