Summary: | [Sidebar: Styles and formatting] Implementing the styles views as filters | ||
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Product: | LibreOffice | Reporter: | Frank Brütting <frank.bruetting> |
Component: | UI | Assignee: | Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs> |
Status: | NEW --- | ||
Severity: | enhancement | CC: | bright.email, dgp-mail, heiko.tietze, John.m.astell, johnsmithbeatles, mentoring, Olaf_Hautow, rgb.mldc, thomas.lendo |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All | ||
See Also: |
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90646 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155283 |
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Crash report or crash signature: | Regression By: | ||
Bug Depends on: | |||
Bug Blocks: | 103427, 114278 | ||
Attachments: |
Hierarchical tree branch view in another word-processor
Applied Styles view in LibreOffice Writer version 6.0.2.1 on Windows 10 (as of 2018-03-20) Heirarchical view in LibreOffice Writer version 6.0.2.1 on Windows 10 (as of 2018-03-20) |
Description
Frank Brütting
2018-01-07 16:27:08 UTC
100% agree we the clear separation of viewing modes from filters. Created attachment 140753 [details]
Hierarchical tree branch view in another word-processor
Hierarchical tree lines that connects the branches as they appear nested inside one another also make the Hierarchical view a lot more readable. This screenshot shows how it is done in another word-processor.
(In reply to Eric Bright from comment #2) > Hierarchical tree lines that connects the branches as they appear nested... Doesn't the look and feel of trees depend on your system theme? Created attachment 140761 [details] Applied Styles view in LibreOffice Writer version 6.0.2.1 on Windows 10 (as of 2018-03-20) (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #3) > (In reply to Eric Bright from comment #2) > > Hierarchical tree lines that connects the branches as they appear nested... > > Doesn't the look and feel of trees depend on your system theme? I am not sure. On my system, a Windows 10, x64, it looks awful. I attached another screenshot, which shows how it looks like on my system at best. A huge drawback of the current, messy hierarchical view is that since it is not usable as it is due to all styles being listed whether or not they are applied, one cannot easily know which paragraph style is inheriting properties from which other style in a glance. This causes a huge problem later when you want to change levels or other organizational settings and suddenly see seemingly unrelated styles are being "randomly" changed as a consequence (of course it is not random, and they are inheriting properties from the style you just changed, but you cannot see that). This, in my opinion, defeats the whole purpose of the hierarchical view. With a clean hierarchical view, as is suggested in the OP, and proper branch lines that visually connect and separate each branch from others, for the Applied Styles, one can easily see and understand what is going on. Created attachment 140762 [details]
Heirarchical view in LibreOffice Writer version 6.0.2.1 on Windows 10 (as of 2018-03-20)
(In reply to Eric Bright from comment #5) > A huge drawback of the current, messy hierarchical view is that since it is > not usable as it is due to all styles being listed whether or not they are > applied... Now you mix-up different topics. Let's focus on the design question, showing tree lines to support the hierarchy. The option Hierarchical being orthogonal or rather additional to the filters All styles, Applied, Hidden etc. is a different question and likely discussed in other tickets. Actually, my bug report was about splitting the current list up in a) filters and b) view/sorting modes. I for example would like to able to use the “used styles” filter (maybe via a checkbox?) in conjunction with every selectable style of that list. The tree lines would be a nice addition though, but are not really my concern. :) Okay, so let's go with a checkbox [x] Hierarchical next to [x] Show Preview that allows to show any filtered selection in a tree. And of course, Hierarchical should be removed from the list. The question on tree visualization with or without help lines should be separated. Would you mind adding an additional checkbox “[x] used styles”? In reply to zyklon87 from comment #10) > Would you mind adding an additional checkbox “[x] used styles”? Yes, good point. *** Bug 131556 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 144727 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 151109 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** |