[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 130549] LibreOffice Writer - Paste Special = LibreOffice Calc - Paste Special

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130549

--- Comment #10 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> ---
WF imo.

1. Should we only have the proposed dialog for same-instance pastes? Note that
the Calc's specialized dialog is not even for Calc XML content, but for
same-instance - you will not have the dialog, even for different instances of
the same application - e.g., copy something from Calc, close LO, open LO, open
Calc, paste special - and generic dialog opens.

1.1. If not, then why? Can't we want to not paste objects when pasting from,
say, browser?

1.2. If yes, then isn't it inconsistent again between Calc and Writer?

2. The Calc's paste options are applied *globally* for each Calc's
"micro-document" which is each cell. In Writer, there's no such structure, as
Heiko mentioned in comment 7. So this new function would have to behave *very*
differently, doing some magic on parts of content of the same document text -
and what if the result doesn't make sense? Like the "apply format", again
mentioned in the same comment, because you don't have a strict pattern - "the
whole cell at offset 0,0 at insertion site gets format taken from the whole
cell at offset 0,0 of original site; the whole cell at offset 0,1 gets ..."?
Comments? Where do you paste comments if you do not paste text? Same for
objects - they may be anchored to paragraphs, characters, pages, frames, as
characters - how do you paste all those if you don't paste their anchorings?

But maybe there could be a compelling mockup suggesting a good workflow that I
don't realize?

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