[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 132864] Harmony in position settings of different objects

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132864

--- Comment #8 from Telesto <telesto at surfxs.nl> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #7)
> (In reply to Dieter from comment #6)
> > "There is no guideline because all settings are based
> > on individual decisions" 
> 
> doesn't match
> 
> > But if there is actual no guideline, the bug is endeed invalid and
> > improvements should be discussed for different objects separately.
> 
> whether NAB or INVALID, point is that I don't see need for the same setting
> over different objects. Maybe I'm wrong and you get other opinions.

The main point is behavioral differences movement around a document. So I tend
opt for same settings, except if there are (valid) reasons do it differently. 

I'm in search for the 'individual decisions' backing those differences etc. I
speculate that those are simply history based coincidence. Or maybe based on
arguments maybe valid back then but not anymore. However those decisions are
old (and not properly documented; i think)  



So major issue is 'lacking of' information. The different behavior is simply
'hard' from user point of view (similar objects different behavior) and keeping
quality in control. 
I'm not pointing to an specific bug here. It's more a suggestion to make it
easier to find bugs, maintaining over all quality (with basic settings),
consistent user experience, directing DEV effort and quick bug fixing. 

All those 'difference' make it hard to asses if something is broken or not. And
create the risk of introducing new issues after export to say DOCX/RTF. So
streamlining makes it simply easier tho maintain and guarantee basic
functionality 

And it makes it possible for the DEVS to focus on certain bugs; instead of bugs
scattered across all objects. Where every bug is qualified as corner case,
limited to a certain object, with specific anchor/wrap. So object behavior
being broken all over the place in different ways, in different settings which
all become trivialized individually. 

And no, I don't think people will even notice a change; as it's pretty
subtle;in my view.

However to start this assessment I would like the UX-history (log) for the
current UX-implementation; how and why did we do this back then? And i'm not
going to crawl through they UX mailing list of 10 years (and again the OoO bug
list) and maybe the StarOffice documentation :-)

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