[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 153248] Insert Caption and Caption Options dialogs have a mix of settings affecting the whole category or only current caption

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153248

--- Comment #4 from sdc.blanco at youmail.dk ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #2)
> I don't see the problems
Will let stragu elaborate if needed.

But as a mild query....
> Per Character Style it is possible to use bold font, for example, at the
> numbering coming from a special character style.
Present behavior is to apply this CS only to "category name and field number"
for the caption to be inserted.  What is the use case justification here?

Seems better (and more useful) to have the change applied to all the captions,
which would be consistent with the behavior of the "Numbering (Captions) by
Chapter" section.

Same story for "Category" (category order) -- why would you switch order for
one case, but not for all?  Seems more practical to be able to change all cases
in this way (given that it is always possible to manually edit a single case).

> If this CS is using a border I cannot disable it by not checking the "Apply 
> border and shadow" checkbox - smells like a bug. 
Is it possible that (long ago) "caption" was placed in its own frame, instead
of a frame? Otherwise, what is the meaning of "caption frame" (and what is the
"object") in the help page [1].

And what is the meaning of the section title "Category and Frame Format"?  (if
checkbox is removed, then probably need to improve the title).

(NB that the help for this section has not changed since its initial checkin in
2004.)

Would make more sense that all options in the options dialog were applied to
all existing (and future) captions (which I think is also noted in comment 1).

In all cases, could probably simplify the interface of the options dialog by
moving the Numbering by Chapter section to bottom, and then drop the section
titles for "Category and Frame Format" and "Caption" (which do not seem to help
much).


[1] https://help.libreoffice.org/7.6/en-US/text/swriter/01/04060100.html

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