[Bug 158876] Autocorrect options are very confusing and difficult to use

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158876

Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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         Depends on|                            |158877

--- Comment #2 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #1)
> Duplicate of bug 158877, or vice versa. At least partially.

Let's say this one depends on that one. i.e. if 158877 was resolved somehow,
that would reduce the severity of the general problem I complain about here.

> While some options might be not easy to understand I think the alternative
> is worse.

But there isn't such as thing as _the_ alternative. There's a design space of
the UI for these different options, plus the text labels of labels in each
point of that design space.

A specific example: If we separated content-changing options, and displayed
them so as to indicate and differentiate what gets replaced and with what -
that will certainly be an improvement, almost regardless of what phrasing we
choose.

> The alternative could be some illustration with the drawback that you scroll
> through a huge dialog.

Illustrations are one option of several. And even if we consider
illustrations/examples - those could be per-setting collapsible (and collapsed
by default); or visible only in a tooltip.

> In the end I see no immediate issue with the dialog. Do you have support for
> your view?

Like most bugs I file, not at this time, but I'm sure there would be. I'll try
to get some sock puppets, but even without them, you're dismissing this too
quickly...


Referenced Bugs:

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158877
[Bug 158877] Non-corrective Autoformat settings can't just be placed under
AutoCorrect
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