[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 146380] (Enhancement) Add Single, Double, etc. Page View to the View Menu, so it is easier to Hide Whitespace, and stop automatically reverting documents to Auto.

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146380

--- Comment #12 from MarjaE <erwinm at alumni.beloit.edu> ---
(In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #10)
> (In reply to MarjaE from comment #9)
> > It's hidden in a separate dialogue when I try that.
> 
> You are telling puzzles. What's hidden where?

The View Layout options are hidden in a separate dialogue in View > Zoom >
Zoom... Why would a user expect to find them under Zoom, or under Zoom >
Zoom...?

> 
> > It keeps reverting.
> 
> What keeps reverting, and at which moment?

Each time I open the document, I find that all these settings have reverted.

> 
> > So I have to go into this hidden dialogue every time I open every Writer
> > document.
> 
> This seems to confirm my idea that "it reverts" for other documents.
> 
> > If there is an option under Preferences, I can't find it, because I can't
> > enlarge the "perfectly readable" text in that interface to read it.
> 
> Which option you are talking about? We already discussed the option in the
> View menu. And what "I can't find it, because I can't enlarge the "perfectly
> readable" text in that interface to read it" might mean?

An option to set the View Layout, instead of having it always revert to Auto,
and to turn off Show Whitespace, instead of havuing it always revert to on.
> 
> Generally, you seem to fight with the interface, and try to find answers
> here; but this is not a user support resource - this is a bug tracking site,
> where issues need to be described clearly, with steps to reproduce,
> screenshots, problematic documents, etc. - not to help user to workaround or
> to learn, but to reproduce the issue, confirm it, and then hopefully fix.

And this interface is a bug.

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