[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 152656] "Drawing Style" should be renamed "Drawing Object Style"

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152656

--- Comment #4 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #2)
> I never read "Drawing Style" as
> something else but related to an object.

A "drawing style" is a style of drawing. Just search for it and you'll see:

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=%22drawing+style

> Do we really need to change it?

The world won't collapse if we don't,  but that's not the question. The
question is would it be better to change it than to keep the current term, and
I claim that it would...

I'll even make an AI-based argument! These days, if you tell an app to change
the "drawing style", the association may be that you expect something to be
re-rendered as impressionist, or cubist, or surrealist etc. :-P


> The first item is "Default Drawing Style" and renaming it to "Default
> Drawing Object Style" sounds wrong.

That stems from the fact that these are styles of entities whose names have two
words. Suppose we had styles for "self-sealing stem bolts". Then, the default
style might be "Default self-sealing stem bolt style" - yes, a bit awkward, but
that's what it would be.

Now, as for this awkwardness - I can think of several ways to resolve this:

1. Call the default style "Default Object Style". The fact that it's a
_Drawing_ object style would be understood from the context.
1. (More radical) Call the default style of every category of styles just
"Default Style" or "(Default Style)". That would be more consistent, but might
theoretically cause some kind of name clash problem. (Or not? I don't know.)
3. Call the default style "Default Drawing-Object Style". And similarly,
"Default self-sealing-stem-bolt style" if we had styles for those. This guides
the pronunciation.

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