[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 152550] Drop the "Basic Fonts" option dialogs

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152550

--- Comment #20 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> ---
(In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #6)
> Templates are for people who really need highly customized defaults. For
> most, trying to enforce dealing with templates and styles would be really
> unneeded and excessive complexity.

So, this is my mentioned detriment (2.) . I said "some may argue", because,
well, I've always been wary of setting any defaults in LO Settings. It's a
scary place where it's difficult to figure out what effect your actions will
have. Also, I'm not sure inexperienced users would even explore the LO settings
hierarchy. Still, I recognize that adopting my suggestion would also
necessitate doing some serious UI work to make it easier and accessible for
inexperienced users to make changes to the "root defaults", i.e. in my
suggestion to the default template.

One way to achieve this would be having the style dialogs include some button
or more complex UI which actually does this for you, which you would notice as
you are surveing a Style's features. I think MS Word has something like that:

http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/images/2010StylesOrganizer.png

And the link takes you to a "Style Organizer" for copying styles to the default
template.

https://www.avantixlearning.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/StylesOrganizer.png

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