https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153248
Stéphane Guillou (stragu) <stephane.guil...@libreoffice.org> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Version|7.2.7.2 release |Inherited From OOo
Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEW
Keywords| |needsUXEval
Ever confirmed|0 |1
Summary|"Numbering Captions by |Insert Caption and Caption
|Chapter" in Insert - |Options dialogs have a mix
|Caption - Options dialog |of settings affecting the
|changes all captions, |whole category or only
|should it? |current caption
CC| |libreoffice-ux-advise@lists
| |.freedesktop.org,
| |stephane.guillou@libreoffic
| |e.org
--- Comment #1 from Stéphane Guillou (stragu)
<stephane.guil...@libreoffice.org> ---
Issue first discussed in bug 153244 comment 3.
In the dialog, we have:
- Level
- Separator
- Character Style
- Apply border and shadow
- Caption order
The two first ones apply to all captions of the same category (those are the
numbering field parameters that can be later edited by double-clicking the
field), and the three last ones only to the one being edited. (Not 100% sure
about "Apply border and shadow" because I could not see its effect.)
This is also an issue in the Insert Caption dialog: the numbering setting
affects all fields in the captions of the same category.
The fact that the two dialogs have both "local" and "global" settings is very
confusing, and there is no indication of if in the dialogs or in the help
pages.
The documentation is even wrong: for the Insert Caption dialog, it says "Set
the caption options for the current selection", which is incorrect for the
Numbering field.
The user needs to poke in the dark to make sense of it.
What would make it better:
Reorganising the dialogs to have a distinct section, possibly called "Category
options" which pertains to the common "Number Range" field used for one
category.
Even better, it could be separated by dialog:
- "Insert Caption" dialog contains all the "local" options
- "Options..." dialog is renamed "Category options" and contains all the
options that affect all captions for this category. The button could be more
logically placed next to the Category combobox.
(- In my opinion, some of the current "local" options should become "global"
options, for example the separators used around the field. This would make it
easier to later change the structure of all captions for one category, but I
think the limitation here is that these components are not part of a field,
they're only simple text. Different issue.)
All this is not an issue for the autocaption dialog as it has all 10 settings
in one dialog and all are supposed to apply automatically to all captions of
one category.
Issue is inherited from OOo:
OpenOffice.org 3.3.0
OOO330m20 (Build:9567)
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