https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153992
Bug ID: 153992
Summary: Sidebar character deck/tab doesn't indicate the
current language/language group
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: LibreOffice
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
The character tab/deck of the sidebar shows all sorts of information about your
font: Family, size, bold Y/N, Italic Y/N and others.
Many of these - specifically, the ones I mentioned - are actually defined
separately for each language group: Western, RTL-CTL and CJK. But the tab/deck
does not tell us _which_ language group it's currently showing controls for.
This can be quite confusing when working on text with mixed language groups -
and when the same font family may be used for multiple language groups.
Of course, if LO only has one language group enabled (i.e. Asian/CJK scripts
and RTL/CTL scripts are disabled via options) - then indicating the language
group is not necessary.
Now, as for _how_ to indicate the language group... that's not entirely
obvious. Some possibilities:
* If a control for the language is added, that might be a sufficient surrogate
* If a control for switching language groups is added (see bug 153991), then
hovering over it could tell us what it would do, in a tooltip, e.g. the tooltip
could say "Western -> RTL", then when you click it, "RTL -> CJK", then again
"CJK -> Western" - and you would know that the group on the starting side is
the active one.
* If a control for switching language groups is added (see bug 153991), and its
big enough, it could say "CJK", "RTL" or "Wes". Or something more graphic
instead.
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