[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 #14 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to MarjaE from comment #11)
> 1. I don't understand the logic of reverting Show Whitespace, View Layout,
> and Zoom every time people open a file. I think a persistent user preference
> would be appropriate.

This is per-document setting. So when you create a document, and set it to
two-page view, and save it, this document will open two-page next time, both
for you, and for other people. But other documents, having a different layout
setting, will use their own setting. Thus, if you had created lots of documents
in two-page layout, all they will have that setting individually.

When used *normally*, this feature allows you to have some documents in book
view, some in single page view, and that would be defined by your preference
for them. You may have different kinds of documents, with multiple page sizes,
orientations, some for reading/reference, some for day-to-day editing ... and
using same layout for all is not OK. But of course, if the feature was used
incorrectly - e.g., when you've set it without clear understanding, then
created tens of documents, and now want all of them to look single-page, you
might feel like "give me an option to undo my previous mistake for all at
once". Still, that is not a use case that needs such an option - it's a user
mistake.

Note also, that if you created a template with such a setting, new documents
created from that template will all have that setting applied.

Hope that helps.

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