Bug 109232 (Special-Character)

Summary:	[META] Special character dialog and toolbar group button bugs and enhancements
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired) <philipz85>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	akshaydeepiitr, cno, dgp-mail, thomas.lendo, u20230201, vsfoote
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
URL:	https://design.blog.documentfoundation.org/2018/12/14/special-characters-the-final-touch/
See Also:	https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34882
Whiteboard:
Crash report or crash signature:		Regression By:
Bug Depends on:	41981, 55844, 56301, 56363, 90848, 109212, 109215, 111816, 112223, 112267, 113134, 113309, 114721, 115477, 119156, 120753, 120899, 121231, 123527, 138966, 139107, 139359, 155274, 155275, 156625, 156699, 159000, 34882, 53299, 70438, 74789, 91180, 109007, 109115, 109208, 109209, 109210, 109214, 109216, 109217, 109791, 110354, 111336, 111337, 111625, 111739, 111775, 111795, 111924, 112020, 112147, 112149, 112222, 112261, 112430, 113310, 113343, 113352, 113676, 114549, 115445, 115634, 116138, 116355, 116805, 116876, 116934, 117023, 117038, 117337, 117364, 118300, 118304, 118390, 118681, 118694, 118993, 119441, 119579, 120562, 120730, 123793, 123843, 128850, 129678, 129907, 132970, 134988, 135446, 135656, 135997, 136230, 136781, 137294, 137736, 138193, 139796, 141319, 148487, 150143, 153150, 153806, 154087, 154088, 154089, 154884, 155957, 156538, 159018, 159572
Bug Blocks:	102019, 107838

Description Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired) 2017-07-20 12:04:31 UTC

Comment 1 Heiko Tietze 2017-09-05 07:34:05 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)

Don't get the point of duplicating with bug 109207. We should consolidate both.

Comment 2 Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired) 2017-09-05 09:14:10 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)

(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #1)
> Don't get the point of duplicating with bug 109207. We should consolidate
> both.

Bug 109207 is for bug reports or enhancements specifically arising from changes made during the GSoC, as you have titled it.

Comment 3 Heiko Tietze 2017-09-05 11:24:34 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)

(In reply to Yousuf Philips (jay) from comment #2)
> Bug 109207 is for bug reports or enhancements specifically arising from
> changes made during the GSoC, as you have titled it.

GSoC ended and we do not need two meta tickets to organize stuff. Please use only one and either rename GSoC or move the other tickets.

Comment 4 Ulrich Windl 2017-12-27 10:19:36 UTC

(https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.0 refer to thus bug, but there's little substance)
What I wanted to suggest for the new favourite characters is:
Instead of letting the user add quite a lot of favourite characters, let the user define sets of favourite charcaters for the following reasons: The special characters needed depend on the context (e.g. symbols for mathematical formulas, bullets for lists, foreign language characters, etc.) most of the time.
Also make sure that the user can see metadata of the favorite character selected (e.g. hovering displays some info bubble), as many characters may look very similar (consider the different types of dashes Unicode offers)