[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-04-03 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125268

Miklos Vajna  changed:

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-04-02 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125268

--- Comment #55 from Gerald Pfeifer  ---
(In reply to Miklos Vajna from comment #54)
>> Miklos / Kendy can you add to the ESC agenda for next week ? all are welcome
>> to show up & contribute there of course. 
> Done.

Thank you.  

For a use case I don't think has been mentioned here, consider bug #131215
that was closed as a duplicate: I create a document in ODT all along the way,
and in the last minute was asked to share as DOCX, exported, and was surprised
how differently it appeared.

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-04-01 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125268

--- Comment #54 from Miklos Vajna  ---
(In reply to Michael Meeks from comment #42)
> Miklos / Kendy can you add to the ESC agenda for next week ? all are welcome
> to show up & contribute there of course.

Done.

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-03-31 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125268

--- Comment #53 from Commit Notification 
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Tamás Zolnai committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/24be308681a84937dbd510009e266bacb16cf2fa

Revert "tdf#125268: Export LO character background as MSO shading by default."

It will be available in 7.0.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-03-30 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125268

--- Comment #52 from Justin L  ---
(In reply to Tamás Zolnai from comment #51)
> OK,  I'm reverting the default change. 
Thanks. That makes me happy. I like the concept of having a limited palette by
default for highlighting too.

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-03-30 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125268

--- Comment #51 from Tamás Zolnai  ---
OK,  I'm reverting the default change. In the last five years we have this as a
default, so better not to change it. None of the default will fix the issue
perfectly. Hopefully, somebody comes up with a different solution, which
satisfies the user's needs.

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-03-30 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125268

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--- Comment #50 from V Stuart Foote  ---
I have to agree with Tamás that this is exhausting--at 5.0 release, for bug
64490 we implemented filter import of both Highlighting and Shading from
.doc/docx as LibreOffice Character background. 

Changing defaults for the export filter mode back and forth, between MSO
Highlighting vs. MSO Shading, makes little sense--we changed it for the better
at 5.0, leave it that way. Export to MSO Shading remains a user selectable
option.

The addition now of the mso-highlight.soc (or even rename it
mso-compatability-highlight.soc) pallet was a logical addition for
interoperability in the GUI, so that the default Highlight mode color would
behave on round trip.

+1 for > 5.0 status quo and retention MSO Highlight compatibility mode by
default.

Addition he mso-highlight.soc, with the 15 fixed colors that MSO supports,
helps the GUI for the color pickers. But these MSO swatches should not be mixed
into the standard.soc which was reworked to support RYB additive color model,
they don't belong. Rather, the MSO Highlight colors need to remain in a
distinct palette--maybe suppressed for use when needed just for MSO Highlight
mode--or globally available to the color pickers as now, but not added to the
standard.soc

So, please revert https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/90909 it is a 
backward step in interoperability.

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-03-30 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125268

--- Comment #49 from Heiko Tietze  ---
Created attachment 159150
  --> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=159150=edit
MSO highlighting

MSO character highlighting (left, green) and (paragraph or selection) shading
(expanded). Just to illustrate how much the MSO users "suffer" from shading.

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-03-29 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125268

--- Comment #48 from Telesto  ---
> The newly introduced mso-highlight.soc palette is questionable.

Hmm, I have found one downside.. The palette exists across all color pickers
and isn't limited to the highlight color button.

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-03-27 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125268

--- Comment #47 from Bart  ---
Created attachment 159082
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Showing Highlighted Colors first, showing Shaded Colors if the user selects
that option

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-03-27 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125268

--- Comment #46 from Bart  ---
Created attachment 159081
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Showing Highlighted Colors and Shaded Colors simulaneously, Version II

(I added a few lines and buttons in the image)

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-03-27 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125268

--- Comment #45 from Bart  ---
I read the reactions and I hope that I can offer something that pleases most of
the people here. Of course these suggestions are -again- just suggestions. Feel
free to disagree.

I have been in software development myself (although more back-end than
front-end) and that's why I see this topic from four perspectives:
- The Libre Office standard user 
- The Libre Office sophisticated user
- The Microsoft Word user
- The Libre Office developers (last but not least)

To address the concerns that I noticed, I changed the image that I had made and
I added a few lines and a few buttons. (That's image
"HighlightAndShading2.png") That screen however, gets too detailed for me as a
user. I no longer see what's relevant and what's not.

That's why I made image "HighlightAndShading3.png". Now only Highlight Colors
are initially shown. After clicking 
   "More Colors (= Shaded Colors)"
the user also gets to see the Shaded Colors. The user can either get what he
gets now, OR the user can get something with both Highlighted and Shaded (like
in "HighlightAndShading3.png"). Which of the two the user gets is not up to me,
but since the user already choose for Shaded Colors, showing the Highlight
Colors also may be redundant.

BTW, I think there's a nice undertone in the sentence:
   "Other word processors may or may not fully supported Shaded colors".
To me this sounds as if Microsoft only offers regular chocolate, while Libre
Office offers Cherry Chocolate. :)

I suspect that most standard users will choose a Highlighted Color, while most
sophisticated users may choose from a Shaded Color. I also expect sophisticated
users to be aware of compatibility topics better.

The buttons "More Info" could give some explanation and warnings about
compatibility and exporting. Maybe it could explain how to remove Shaded Colors
in Word. Although ... I'm not sure if it's the responsibility of Libre Office
to explain how Word works. Although again ... there may be less questions on
forums if this information is added, and less users moving away from Libre
Office.

I hope that this suggestion also makes it easy for developers to decide if a
piece of text should be stored as Highlighted (and be supported by Word), or if
it should be stored as Shaded (only partly supported by Word).

I hope that this way users are better aware that there are Highlighted Colors
and Shaded Colors, even if the two are the same in the document itself. I do
see one important difference: Highlighted Colors can easily be changed in Word,
while Shaded Colors are less easy to change in Word.

For me as a user, screens like this will avoid confusion and surprises.

Again, this is just a suggestion. It's up to others what to do with it. I hope
it's an elegant solution. If not, I'm perfectly willing to polish it or to come
with alternatives. 

Feel free to shoot at it, but please be kind when shooting. :D

PS:

An idea popped up how to persuade users to save their documents as .odf and how
to persuade MSO to change their behavior at any time. It's exactly where
compatibility issues arise, but I think it's better if I post that as a
separate suggestion.

Regarding the "Libre Office standard user", a senior friend of mine uses Libre
Office. His documents were always saved as .odt. Before traveling he always
emailed his itinerary to friends and family. Many of them would be struggling
to open his documents and he got a lot of unpleasant emails back. When he asked
me for help I explained what had happened. On his request I changed the
settings and now his documents are saved as .doc by default.

Regarding the buttons "more info", when updates went into production at work, I
often sent an email to the users with the most important changes, only to find
out ... that nobody ever read them.
So I did it differently. On the screens that I had changed I added buttons
"more info" with the most important information about that screen and their
fields. When clicking these buttons, users would get the information they
needed, when they needed it, and not more not less. They loved it. I got less
emails and phone calls, so hehe, I loved it too. :D (That's also the idea
behind buttons "More info" in the images.)

In Word version 14 I could only find one way to remove shaded color. I select
the text, cut it, and choose "paste unformatted text" somewhere without shaded
color. Maybe there are other ways, but this is the only way I found.

Regarding the terms "Highlighted Colors" and "Shaded Colors", for me,
"Highlighted Colors" are compatible with Word documents. "Shaded Colors" are
less compatible with Word.

As a developer I try to keep solutions simple and easy. I know that that's not
always possible, but very often when I choose sophisticated solutions, they
would bite-me-in-the-butt later. :p

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-03-27 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125268

--- Comment #44 from Mike Kaganski  ---
The issue with "It took many hours to make this, and now it tells me it can't
be saved into DOCX is a serious one (although if one would try to save to, say,
TXT, many would agree that it's not an issue ;-))". But instead of creating
sets of UI for different scenarios, maybe a service that could dynamically
check the document for "compliance" with currently active filter could be
better? (I don't see a problem in compatibility palettes; the problem is when
to use one.)

E.g., the service could work in the background, like spellchecker; and when it
finds an issue like this one, it adds a warning info panel (similar to "read
only") with explanation. Or it could react to uno commands, analyze the result,
and show a tooltip. The warning message in the info panel or tooltio could be
something like "This color cannot be saved as highlight in DOCX". As that would
popup right when user made the change (or 10 seconds later, if run in the
background), it would be easy to act timely, and not stack problems until it
takes a full re=creation of the document from scratch.

However, this doesn't remove the need for save-time check. No amount of magic
would prevent a user to create a new document, add any formatting (while it
doesn't have a chosen filter yet), then decide to save to DOCX. Only save-time
dialog with enough information could help then.

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-03-27 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125268

--- Comment #43 from Telesto  ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #41)
> We discussed the topic in the design meeting. While introducing a color
> palette is the easiest solution it cripples our features for no good reason.


How does a MSO color palette cripple the features of Libo? And is
interoperability not a good reason. In this line of argument I would question
the capability to export to different formats in general. ODT or nothing. 

> MSO might change the behavior at any time. 
Yes, but the have the same backward compatibility issue. Not every-one is
running the latest version of MSO. Pushing something like that is only possible
with MSO cloud only solutions. Where everbody is forced to work with latest and
greatest version. 

> 
> The better approach is to warn in detail what attribute in the current
> document might not work when saved as docx (or other formats). That means to
> analyze the document, compare against a list of incompatibilities, and show
> it to the user.

I'm not really convinced here. Specific to highlighting. I have a created a
document, with tons of highlighting. I want to share it somebody with MSO
(docx/doc). 
On export (say after 20 hours of work) I get a warning "A character background
cannot be represented using MSO's highlighting and will be approximated to
[this color]". Grumble. I see three outcomes:
1. Export anyway with approximated color (Current situation)
2. Export the document with highlight saved as background color (which can't be
edited in MSO easily (or at least unconventional). So ending up with questions
for MSO user (situation before 5.0)
3. Redo the document with the limited color palette (The LibO user has tones
fixes to do anyway)

More in general: it would set a president to do this for all types for
compatibility issues. Which is probably quite a long list of all types of
stuff.  What so happen when a anchor is positioned differently (or different
one is used in MSO). Exported DOC/DOCX maybe look the same, but technically
different [no knowledge if this problem really exists, but expect something
similar to do so]

> The newly introduced mso-highlight.soc palette is questionable.
Please explain why. I know you don't like it. Is it the own identity of LibO?
It feels a bit like MS arrogance. Set a standard and force others into it. With
the difference that MS Office has large part of the office marked?

Compatibility issues is the reason why people don't want to use LibreOffice or
turn the back on LibreOffice after the run into trouble. 

I'm personally quite content with the mso-highlighting color palette. It at
least gives the possibility to work MSO complaint (which wan't possible
before). 

I would opt for renaming mso-highlight to mso-compability-highlight (should fit
in dialog). Which would be a subtitle warning & proper documentation. And maybe
optionally set mso-compability-highlight default for doc/docx. But only if this
type of problem is really limited docx/doc. Btw, are palette setting also saved
inside the ODT? If this is the case, it would also fix the DOCX/doc to ODT
variant. [Note: not suggestion palette setting should be saved, if this isn't
the case currently.]

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-03-27 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125268

Michael Meeks  changed:

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--- Comment #42 from Michael Meeks  ---
So - this should go to the ESC, the debate doesn't belong in a bug.

We have discussed this before, I explained what IIRC was the consensus then.

Taking this to extremes is unhelpful in any direction. We need a solution that
doesn't surprise the users - and endless caveats in a hidden dialog is not that
IMHO.

Miklos / Kendy can you add to the ESC agenda for next week ? all are welcome to
show up & contribute there of course.

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-03-27 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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--- Comment #41 from Heiko Tietze  ---
We discussed the topic in the design meeting. While introducing a color palette
is the easiest solution it cripples our features for no good reason. MSO might
change the behavior at any time. 

The better approach is to warn in detail what attribute in the current document
might not work when saved as docx (or other formats). That means to analyze the
document, compare against a list of incompatibilities, and show it to the user.

The newly introduced mso-highlight.soc palette is questionable.

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-03-27 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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--- Comment #40 from Mike Kaganski  ---
(In reply to Michael Meeks from comment #38)
> As an example: if you load a DOCX file - then we can safely assume you will
> save as DOCX (this covers some vast proportion of the use cases) - and so we
> can hide the UI options associated with doing more powerful ODF supported
> things =) On ODF export to DOCX people expect some format shifting problems,
> so we select the nearest feature, and the nearest matching hue for this case.

Let me provide an example of a (different) problem that this would bring. In
Writer, there's a concept of page styles, which is totally absent in Word.
Trying to "hide" this functionality from users opening DOCX would simply
disable any means of manipulating pages in Writer (there's nothing except of
page styles for that in Writer, and that is its strength). So that would result
in need of spending so little developer effort implementing an alternative
machinery - UI, but also internal stuff. Of course, that won't bring any
maintenance costs with it, and no problems with interoperability of stuff
created by the same Writer when in different modes.

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-03-27 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125268

--- Comment #39 from Mike Kaganski  ---
(In reply to Michael Meeks from comment #38)
> This is an old-chestnut. There is a very significant cost in code
> complexity, maintenance and CPU time of walking the entire LibreOffice
> document model before starting to serialize it. Worse - whatever output we
> produce is never going to be completely accurate anyway.

I don't think it's that complex. Just moving the warning dialog from beginning
of the export into "in the middle", when an export model was created, but not
yet written t the file, would allow each export function to output its warnings
to a provided logger. No need to create a dedicated step.

> Worse - this will inevitably produce a long, and impenetrable series of
> highly technical 'stuff' as text (if we had even more infinite resource we
> could link each item to the document somehow) - that is going to be
> frightening and/or not interesting to all of our end-users who just want to
> understand:
> "why does it not work?",
> "Why did you let me get into this situation I don't understand !?" - etc.

Believing that you may always come with an "elegant" solution to problems
caused externally is daydreaming IMO. The list might be collapsed by default,
but not providing it because many wouldn't understand it is demeaning users. In
fact, currently many users just disable the warning that has no value at all,
because it seems to be wrong ("I saved my simple document to DOCX many times,
and never got any problems - it must be a joke!") only to later stumble upon a
problem with a thing that they never used before, and come here or to AskLibO
with "you ruined my many hours of work without warning!". If instead we only
output the dialog when there's actual dataloss, like here, or at least make it
"we didn't identified specific issues, but still there might be some problems"
when nothing specific was identified, it would provide value to people.

> I'm not in the UX team; but I would be staggered if this was thought to be a
> good idea. Almost certainly it is far easier to solve the problem in a more
> elegant way.
> 
> As an example: if you load a DOCX file - then we can safely assume you will
> save as DOCX (this covers some vast proportion of the use cases) - and so we
> can hide the UI options associated with doing more powerful ODF supported
> things =) On ODF export to DOCX people expect some format shifting problems,
> so we select the nearest feature, and the nearest matching hue for this case.

Which would effectively mean "let's implement MS Word for those who load DOCX;
Pages for those who load .pages, etc.". That would become a nightmare of
multiple inconsistent UIs, each trying to satisfy some subset of users, and at
the same time dissatisfy e.g. users who receive a DOCX and are editing it to
save as ODT.

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-03-27 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125268

--- Comment #38 from Michael Meeks  ---
> Better we would fix a different issue, which is unclear set of what is broken
> on export. The warning user gets when saving to an external format doesn't
> list specifics what will break;

This is an old-chestnut. There is a very significant cost in code complexity,
maintenance and CPU time of walking the entire LibreOffice document model
before starting to serialize it. Worse - whatever output we produce is never
going to be completely accurate anyway.

Worse - this will inevitably produce a long, and impenetrable series of highly
technical 'stuff' as text (if we had even more infinite resource we could link
each item to the document somehow) - that is going to be frightening and/or not
interesting to all of our end-users who just want to understand:
"why does it not work?",
"Why did you let me get into this situation I don't understand !?" - etc.

Any good UX should not be spending lots of time, developer work, debugging etc.
to do an imperfect job of providing extremely dense and unhelpful information.
No matter how satisfying that is to developers who can say "I told you so in a
footnote on page 135 of that dialog you clicked through" ;-)

Microsoft of course were leaned on by their customers to try to do this for
their ODF export filter. They produced 900+ pages of documentation - you can
read it here: 
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/office_standards/ms-oodf/68b99f79-842f-4db2-9249-0f71b611712b
in a 10Mb PDF download.

I'm not in the UX team; but I would be staggered if this was thought to be a
good idea. Almost certainly it is far easier to solve the problem in a more
elegant way.

As an example: if you load a DOCX file - then we can safely assume you will
save as DOCX (this covers some vast proportion of the use cases) - and so we
can hide the UI options associated with doing more powerful ODF supported
things =) On ODF export to DOCX people expect some format shifting problems, so
we select the nearest feature, and the nearest matching hue for this case.

At least, that's my 2 cents.

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-03-27 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125268

--- Comment #37 from Mike Kaganski  ---
I don't think we should fix this by itself.

Better we would fix a different issue, which is unclear set of what is broken
on export. The warning user gets when saving to an external format doesn't list
specifics what will break; and e.g. in this case, it could have an item for "A
character background cannot be represented using MSO's highlighting and will be
approximated to [this color]. Alternatively, you may select character
backgrounds to be exported as shading, which is less-known MSO feature and may
cause UX issues..."

with possible links to descriptions, etc. That is a big task, but you just
cannot hope to solve problems like this one, where there's a feature set
mismatch (and even inherent other program's UX problem!), to fit all.

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-03-24 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125268

--- Comment #36 from Gerald Pfeifer  ---
(In reply to Bart from comment #32)
> I was also taken by surprise that I had selected "Light Yellow 3" in a
> document, saved it as .doc , and to see that the color was changed to
> "Yellow" after I had reopened it.

This!  This is the challenge in a default configuration right now, which
also caught me by surprise.

> So I hope that I have a useful suggestion. For me as a user everything is
> much less surprising if they are visible.
> 
> Image "HighlightAndShading.png" gives a photoshopped impression. In this
> suggestion Highlighting and Shading can be seen at the same time. Users
> should be better aware of the two when both are visible at the same time.

I think this is an interesting suggestion.  Thanks for putting this forward,
Bart.

For a "normal" LibreOffice user it may not be intuitive - the challenge,
however, remains how we can inform users of the challenge (change of colors
when interoperability with Microsoft Office is required) and how to avoid it?

(In reply to Tamás Zolnai from comment #34)
> In MSO, character shading and character highlight are the same functionality

...which is very confusing, though of course nothing we have control over;
rather, it has been a source of challenges for us.

> I think the suggestion of adding two sections of colors can't be added in
> general for all users, because "native" LO users don't care about MSO, so
> they don't need to be confused about two character background color.
> However, we already have some MSO compatibility option, so I can imagine a
> new option which enables this UI for those who need better MSO compatibility.

Thank you for the detailed background, Tamás. Do you have an idea how we can
point people towards that option (which is really hidden)? Or could some work
on the color palettes, in a default config, help?

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-03-24 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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--- Comment #35 from Bart  ---
Tamás, thank you for your explanation!

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-03-24 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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--- Comment #34 from Tamás Zolnai  ---
In MSO, character shading and character highlight are the same functionality
implemented twice from the user perspective. I assume this is because of
historical reasons. We try to reproduce the useful features of MSO, but not
MSO's history and not MSO's mistakes.
This functionality duplicate lead to bad user experience since when a document
has a text color, it's not clear whether it's shading or highlight for the
first look. Some users are using only the highlight tool in MSO because that is
the more visible feature on the UI and these users are confused when they can't
remove existing text color with the highlight tool, because that is shading.
The same complaining was about LO before, because it used shading and users
were not aware of that feature of MSO.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/microsoft.public.word.docmanagement/NH8mtn67kTM
https://askubuntu.com/questions/224760/highlights-in-libreoffice-writer-cannot-be-undone-in-office-word

So, all-in-all it's not a good idea to implement two character backgrounds in
LibreOffice to mimic MSO bad design. So we have one character background in LO,
which means displaying two sections of text colors just does not make sense for
LO users. The two-section has no difference both set the character background
or highlight or whatever we name it. If a user says there is any difference
between the two features I think it's just justifying the existence of them,
not actual difference. MSO shading and MSO highlight are both for setting
background of the selected text.

I think the suggestion of adding two sections of colors can't be added in
general for all users, because "native" LO users don't care about MSO, so they
don't need to be confused about two character background color. However, we
already have some MSO compatibility option, so I can imagine a new option which
enables this UI for those who need better MSO compatibility.

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-03-23 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125268

--- Comment #33 from Bart  ---
Created attachment 158906
  --> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=158906=edit
This photoshopped image gives a suggestion for showing the user Highlighted and
Shading at the same time.

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-03-23 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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--- Comment #32 from Bart  ---
I was also taken by surprise that I had selected "Light Yellow 3" in a
document, saved it as .doc , and to see that the color was changed to "Yellow"
after I had reopened it.

So I hope that I have a useful suggestion. For me as a user everything is much
less surprising if they are visible.

Image "HighlightAndShading.png" gives a photoshopped impression. In this
suggestion Highlighting and Shading can be seen at the same time. Users should
be better aware of the two when both are visible at the same time.

So ... would it be worth a thought to remove:
   "Character Highlighting, Export As Highlighting / Shading" 
from 
   "Tools -> Options -> Load/Save -> Microsoft Office" 
and do something like the image instead?

As a user, I am also much happier with less options under "Tools -> Options ->
etc.". I never know if an option is there, and if it's there, I never know
where it's located or what its name is. More than once I clicked all (!) the
boxes and tabs under "Tools -> Options", in various programs repeatedly (!),
only to find that the thing I was looking for, wasn't there.

If the developers don't like this idea, that's fine with me, but if it can be
given a thought, that would be really nice.

I hope that implementing this suggestion leads to less confusion with users, I
hope that less confusion leads to less bug reports, and I hope that less bug
reports leads to less work for the developers. :) :) :)

With this suggestion I did keep in mind that documents can be created in Libre
Office and then sent to MS Word users, that they can go the opposite way, but
also that they can go back and forth all the time.

I don't know if it's better if a user can select both shading and highlighting
at the same time, OR if they should only be able to choose one of the two. If
they can select both at the same time in MS Word, then it may be better for
compatibility to do this in Libre Office too.

Most of all I hope that I made a user-friendly suggestion. :)

(Obviously, I hope it's developer-friendly too. :) )

Thanks again to all the developers for all the time and effort that you are
putting into this.

PS: I had first posted this suggestion in topic 131466. When first posting, I
had not read jmux's comment "Maybe for DOCX documents there should be
explicitly two ways to set the background: highlight and shading, so the user
can be aware of the difference?".

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-03-23 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125268

--- Comment #31 from Jan-Marek Glogowski  ---
As mentioned on IRC, I don't have a solution. I'll just use the log as an
infodump. 

[14:51]  buovjaga: the change is just in 7.0, so plenty of time to agree
on some "final" solution. Probably start with a revert, so LO won't accidently
release the current state.
[14:52]  sure
[14:52]  And I agree with buovjaga that this is a primary a usability,
not a coding problem.
[14:56]  What I seem to understand is: character background handling is
different between ODF and DOCX. I don't know, why DOCX has shading and
highlight.
[14:57]   History
[14:58]  I don't think it's a good idea to open a DOCX and allow the user
to make changes, which aren't representable in the format.
[14:59]  As we already see, this results in frustration. Since the user
doesn't know about this limits, no blame on him.
[15:01]  So I guess the idea about the MS color palette is not the worst
to start with.
[15:03]  It obviously breaks, if the import document now actually uses
shading colors, as LO at this point can't know, if the color was highlight or
shading to begin with.
[15:05]  IMHO the UX team should provide a suggestion to handle these
constraints in their preferred way given the restrictions.
[15:05]  And then we can discuss, if an implementation is feasible.
[15:08]  And from my current POV, it doesn't look that there will be any
perfect solution. Also when the term highlight is already used different in
DOCX and ODF.
[15:11]  Maybe for DOCX documents there should be explicitly two ways to
set the background: highlight and shading, so the user can be aware of the
difference?
[15:16]  Or have a color picker with two areas, one depicting the 15
highlight colors and one for the shading?
[15:17]  BTW: what happens, if the user sets highlight and shading? Is
that possible?
[15:36]   We already have two variants for saving
highlights/shading for docx documnets
[15:36]   You'll find option in Tools-Options dialog
[15:42]  K​ompilainenn: I'm aware of the compatibility settings. But I
don't think this is the most agreeable solution from the UX POV.
[15:43]   Why not? It worked many years
[15:44]   If UX-team will suggest a better solution
it would be good...
[15:46]   But I don't think it's an UX problem
[15:46]   In general
[15:48]  Maybe. I don't know if this is a common problem or not. I read
the bug as that it is, but really don't have a way to evaluate the claims.
[15:50]  If "we" decide the compatibility flags is still good, fair
enough. Less work to be done.

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-03-23 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125268

--- Comment #30 from Dieter  ---
(In reply to Gerald Pfeifer from comment #28)
> > Improving the help page is a good idea.
> 
> And I am still committed to help with that.  Should I open a new issue with
> my suggested text?  (I'm not sure it is completely accurate, it just reflects
> my personal experience.)

Yes, I think that would be better than mixing it with this bug here.

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-03-23 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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--- Comment #29 from Buovjaga  ---
(In reply to Gerald Pfeifer from comment #28)
> (In reply to Tamás Zolnai from comment #24)
> > But I'm exhausted by this. So I'll change the default behavior and I'll
> > point this bug out for those users who will complain about the new default.
> 
> Sorry, I did not mean to exhaust you.  That was my perspective as a user
> (which I've voiced here for the first time); others may differ of course.

UX team should have discussed this first, the commit was made too quickly. Of
course it can be reverted after proper consideration.

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-03-23 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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--- Comment #28 from Gerald Pfeifer  ---
(In reply to Tamás Zolnai from comment #24)
> But I'm exhausted by this. So I'll change the default behavior and I'll
> point this bug out for those users who will complain about the new default.

Sorry, I did not mean to exhaust you.  That was my perspective as a user
(which I've voiced here for the first time); others may differ of course.

(In reply to Tamás Zolnai from comment #23)
> Improving the help page is a good idea.

And I am still committed to help with that.  Should I open a new issue with
my suggested text?  (I'm not sure it is completely accurate, it just reflects
my personal experience.)

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-03-23 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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--- Comment #27 from Tamás Zolnai  ---
The patch will be part of the next release, which is 7.0.

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-03-23 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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--- Comment #26 from Commit Notification 
 ---
Tamás Zolnai committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/701238ea7d8a06fe7a90de15b7660b7c6d854f09

tdf#125268: Export LO character background as MSO shading by default.

It will be available in 7.0.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-03-23 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125268

--- Comment #25 from Tamás Zolnai  ---
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/90909

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-03-23 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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--- Comment #24 from Tamás Zolnai  ---
(In reply to Tamás Zolnai from comment #22)
> > 1. Change the default behavior such that an export from ODT to DOCX
> >changes colors as little as possible.
> > 
> >I now understand there is an option under
> >  Options -> Tools -> Load/Save -> Microsoft
> >re shading vs highlighting, but this is rather hidden and as a user
> >the primary expectation is one of interoperability where possible.
> 
> I'm not a fan of changing the default behavior back and there.
> You see only your own problem now, but other users had a problem with
> exporting this color as MSO shading, because they could not change the
> character background when they opened the document in MSO. In MSO, shading
> is kinda hidden on the UI, while highlight tools is the obvious item to use
> for character background. So both options cause interoperability issues. So
> I don't think that changing the default value back and there will improve
> the situation in general.

But I'm exhausted by this. So I'll change the default behavior and I'll point
this bug out for those users who will complain about the new default.

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-03-23 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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--- Comment #23 from Tamás Zolnai  ---
Improving the help page is a good idea.

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-03-23 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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--- Comment #22 from Tamás Zolnai  ---
> 1. Change the default behavior such that an export from ODT to DOCX
>changes colors as little as possible.
> 
>I now understand there is an option under
>  Options -> Tools -> Load/Save -> Microsoft
>re shading vs highlighting, but this is rather hidden and as a user
>the primary expectation is one of interoperability where possible.

I'm not a fan of changing the default behavior back and there.
You see only your own problem now, but other users had a problem with exporting
this color as MSO shading, because they could not change the character
background when they opened the document in MSO. In MSO, shading is kinda
hidden on the UI, while highlight tools is the obvious item to use for
character background. So both options cause interoperability issues. So I don't
think that changing the default value back and there will improve the situation
in general.

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-03-23 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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--- Comment #21 from Commit Notification 
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Tamás Zolnai committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/41dcf55d347d4f4810379148b2db0fb4a41d3465

tdf#125268: Add mso-highlight color palette.

It will be available in 7.0.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-03-23 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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--- Comment #20 from Dieter  ---
(In reply to Gerald Pfeifer from comment #19)
>And perhaps the following suggested addition can be a start? 
> 
>  "Shading tries to maintain color fidelity between LibreOffice and
>  Microsoft Office to the extent possible. Choose this if interoperability
>  is your primary concern.  Highlighting uses a brighter color palette
> when
>  exporting to Microsoft Office formats, which makes text stand out more
>  strongly while creating more of a visual difference. Choose this is your
>  priority is the highlighting effect over visual fidelity."

This explanation is helpful (at least for me). And heading in help page should
be named "Character Highlighting" instead of "Character Background" to follow
the naming in LO settings

(But perhaps it's better to open a new bug report for this?)

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-03-23 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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--- Comment #19 from Gerald Pfeifer  ---
Thank you, Tamás.

Based on my own experience with bug #131215 I'd make two suggestions:

1. Change the default behavior such that an export from ODT to DOCX
   changes colors as little as possible.

   I now understand there is an option under
 Options -> Tools -> Load/Save -> Microsoft
   re shading vs highlighting, but this is rather hidden and as a user
   the primary expectation is one of interoperability where possible.

2. Timur pointed me to
   https://help.libreoffice.org/7.0/en-US/text/shared/optionen/01130200.html
   which absolutely would not have helped me (without the actual example he
   showed.)

 "Microsoft Office has two character attributes similar to
 LibreOfficeDev character background. Select the appropriate 
 attribute (highlighting or shading) which you would like to 
 use during export to Microsoft Office file formats."

   It would be great to enhance this.  I am not an expert, but definitely 
   volunteer to validate whether any such update would have proved helpful.

   And perhaps the following suggested addition can be a start? 

 "Shading tries to maintain color fidelity between LibreOffice and
 Microsoft Office to the extent possible. Choose this if interoperability
 is your primary concern.  Highlighting uses a brighter color palette when
 exporting to Microsoft Office formats, which makes text stand out more
 strongly while creating more of a visual difference. Choose this is your
 priority is the highlighting effect over visual fidelity."

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-03-23 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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--- Comment #18 from Tamás Zolnai  ---
Created attachment 158890
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mso-highlight color palette

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-03-23 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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--- Comment #17 from Tamás Zolnai  ---
(In reply to Dieter from comment #14)
> (In reply to Tamás Zolnai from comment #12)
> > > How about introducing a 15-color character-highlight-compatibility palette
> > > and an Options - Writer - Compatibility config option to enable that and
> > > only that palette in the Character - Highlight tab; Color button?
> > 
> > It's a great idea.
> 
> => cc: Design-Team
> 
> I think discussion / decision is needed, because observation from Telesto in
> comment 5 is still valid.

I'm adding the mso-highlight color palette for LO in this patch:
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/90905

It contains those colors which are supported by MSO highlight feature and these
colors are expected to be exported to MSO formats without conversion.

So from now, we can suggest the users to use this color palette if they use MSO
file formats.

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--- Comment #16 from Dieter  ---
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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-03-23 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125268

Timur  changed:

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--- Comment #15 from Timur  ---
*** Bug 131215 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2020-03-23 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125268

Dieter  changed:

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 CC||dgp-m...@gmx.de,
   ||libreoffice-ux-advise@lists
   ||.freedesktop.org
 Blocks||113731, 104527
   Keywords||needsUXEval

--- Comment #14 from Dieter  ---
(In reply to Tamás Zolnai from comment #12)
> > How about introducing a 15-color character-highlight-compatibility palette
> > and an Options - Writer - Compatibility config option to enable that and
> > only that palette in the Character - Highlight tab; Color button?
> 
> It's a great idea.

=> cc: Design-Team

I think discussion / decision is needed, because observation from Telesto in
comment 5 is still valid.


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[Bug 104527] [META] DOC (binary) format bug tracker
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113731
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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2019-07-07 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125268

Telesto  changed:

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   See Also||https://bugs.documentfounda
   ||tion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11
   ||5291

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2019-07-07 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125268

Telesto  changed:

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   See Also||https://bugs.documentfounda
   ||tion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11
   ||3872,
   ||https://bugs.documentfounda
   ||tion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97
   ||865

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2019-07-07 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125268

Telesto  changed:

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--- Comment #13 from Telesto  ---
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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2019-07-07 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125268

Telesto  changed:

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   See Also||https://bugs.documentfounda
   ||tion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92
   ||471,
   ||https://bugs.documentfounda
   ||tion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10
   ||7793

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2019-05-30 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125268

--- Comment #12 from Tamás Zolnai  ---
> How about introducing a 15-color character-highlight-compatibility palette
> and an Options - Writer - Compatibility config option to enable that and
> only that palette in the Character - Highlight tab; Color button?

It's a great idea.

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2019-05-30 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125268

--- Comment #11 from Gabor Kelemen  ---
(In reply to Tamás Zolnai from comment #9)
> > > There is quite the 'surprise factor'. You save A and get B on reload. I
> > > would even consider it calling DataLoss..
> 
> 
> About the surprise factor, when the user is surprised that they get a
> different color, it may worth to point out that MSO supports only 16 colors
> for text highlighting. After the user gets to know what they are trying to
> use, I guess they can choose whether to use these 16 colors or switch to
> using shading. Using shading still has the disadvantage that another user
> might not able to remove the colored background because he / she expects it
> is highlighting.

How about introducing a 15-color character-highlight-compatibility palette and
an Options - Writer - Compatibility config option to enable that and only that
palette in the Character - Highlight tab; Color button?

Surely a lot of work, but one less "surprise" for users.

(see also my talk at this years FOSDEM :) )

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2019-05-14 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125268

--- Comment #10 from Tamás Zolnai  ---
> About the surprise factor, when the user is surprised that they get a
> different color, it may worth to point out that MSO supports only 16 colors 
> [...]


15 colors actually.

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2019-05-14 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125268

Tamás Zolnai  changed:

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 Status|RESOLVED|NEW
 Resolution|DUPLICATE   |---

--- Comment #9 from Tamás Zolnai  ---
> > There is quite the 'surprise factor'. You save A and get B on reload. I
> > would even consider it calling DataLoss..


About the surprise factor, when the user is surprised that they get a different
color, it may worth to point out that MSO supports only 16 colors for text
highlighting. After the user gets to know what they are trying to use, I guess
they can choose whether to use these 16 colors or switch to using shading.
Using shading still has the disadvantage that another user might not able to
remove the colored background because he / she expects it is highlighting.

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2019-05-14 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125268

Buovjaga  changed:

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 Status|NEW |RESOLVED
 Resolution|--- |DUPLICATE

--- Comment #8 from Buovjaga  ---


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 97865 ***

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2019-05-14 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125268

--- Comment #7 from Tamás Zolnai  ---
(In reply to Telesto from comment #5)
> Looks like bug 97865 see also bug 107793 (and related bug 116458 bug 115291
> bug 113872)
> 
> @Buovjaga
> Any advise on handling this re-occurring type of bug report. Keeps coming up
> once in a while (and gets confirmed too) Ends in NOTABUG, WONTFIX, DUPLICATE
> of something.. Feels a bit like suppressing the issue
> 
> There is quite the 'surprise factor'. You save A and get B on reload. I
> would even consider it calling DataLoss..
> 
> Current situation is quite terrible; IMHO. However no solution has come up
> in the mean time (except better documentation). But I call that more a
> 'excuse' type of argument. 
>  
> I personally prefer the 'old way' prior to LibO 5.0 by default (so using
> text background). But technical/ terminological 'wrong' I guess. And the
> number of complains are rather limited (or people stopped used LibreOffice
> for this reason)
> 
> ---
> 
> Before the 5.0 version sometimes we saved Writer text background as shading
> (doc, docx), sometimes as highlighting (rtf). From that version an option is
> added, so the user can select the preferred behavior. Highlighting became
> the default, because on LO UI text background is called highlighting. This
> option can be set also via user profile.
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.0

Before the change, the complaint was that the user could not change the
highlighting color in Word because it was not highlighting, but shading and it
is actually more intuitive that this color is highlighting since LO calls it
also that way. Before this change, user can't do anything with that, by now the
user can change the settings and export text background as shading if he needs
it to work on that way.

About the data loss. That is true, but it's always a risk to save to an alien
format that something is not exported as is. Even Word warns you when you save
something in the older DOC format that you may lose something. It's the same in
LO.

Changing default value there and back also a bad idea, because after that those
user will come to complain who are happy with the current default and then what
will you do? So I would stick to this default behavior and when there is a
complaint always mention the corresponding option.

If there is a better solution to handle these two types of character background
(e.g. shading and highlighting) patches are always welcome, but changing the
default behavior does not actually improve the situation.

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2019-05-14 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125268

Buovjaga  changed:

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--- Comment #6 from Buovjaga  ---
(In reply to Telesto from comment #5)
> Looks like bug 97865 see also bug 107793 (and related bug 116458 bug 115291
> bug 113872)
> 
> @Buovjaga
> Any advise on handling this re-occurring type of bug report. Keeps coming up
> once in a while (and gets confirmed too) Ends in NOTABUG, WONTFIX, DUPLICATE
> of something.. Feels a bit like suppressing the issue
> 
> There is quite the 'surprise factor'. You save A and get B on reload. I
> would even consider it calling DataLoss..
> 
> Current situation is quite terrible; IMHO. However no solution has come up
> in the mean time (except better documentation). But I call that more a
> 'excuse' type of argument. 
>  
> I personally prefer the 'old way' prior to LibO 5.0 by default (so using
> text background). But technical/ terminological 'wrong' I guess. And the
> number of complains are rather limited (or people stopped used LibreOffice
> for this reason)
> 
> ---
> 
> Before the 5.0 version sometimes we saved Writer text background as shading
> (doc, docx), sometimes as highlighting (rtf). From that version an option is
> added, so the user can select the preferred behavior. Highlighting became
> the default, because on LO UI text background is called highlighting. This
> option can be set also via user profile.
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.0

I don't think I am the right person to ask, so pinging Tamás.

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2019-05-14 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125268

Telesto  changed:

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 CC||todven...@suomi24.fi

--- Comment #5 from Telesto  ---
Looks like bug 97865 see also bug 107793 (and related bug 116458 bug 115291 bug
113872)

@Buovjaga
Any advise on handling this re-occurring type of bug report. Keeps coming up
once in a while (and gets confirmed too) Ends in NOTABUG, WONTFIX, DUPLICATE of
something.. Feels a bit like suppressing the issue

There is quite the 'surprise factor'. You save A and get B on reload. I would
even consider it calling DataLoss..

Current situation is quite terrible; IMHO. However no solution has come up in
the mean time (except better documentation). But I call that more a 'excuse'
type of argument. 

I personally prefer the 'old way' prior to LibO 5.0 by default (so using text
background). But technical/ terminological 'wrong' I guess. And the number of
complains are rather limited (or people stopped used LibreOffice for this
reason)

---

Before the 5.0 version sometimes we saved Writer text background as shading
(doc, docx), sometimes as highlighting (rtf). From that version an option is
added, so the user can select the preferred behavior. Highlighting became the
default, because on LO UI text background is called highlighting. This option
can be set also via user profile.
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.0

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

2019-05-13 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125268

Roman Kuznetsov <79045_79...@mail.ru> changed:

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 Ever confirmed|0   |1
 CC||79045_79...@mail.ru
Summary|doc/docx export broken for  |Wrong text highlight color
   |attached document   |when export document to
   ||doc/docx
 Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEW
   Keywords||filter:docx
 Blocks||104520

--- Comment #4 from Roman Kuznetsov <79045_79...@mail.ru> ---
confirm in

Version: 6.3.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 773ac3abbf8ab1343367e51b1774d2ee1f8c4f49
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 6.1; UI render: default; VCL: win; 
Locale: ru-RU (ru_RU); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded


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