[Bug 131758] Consistent polygon tool behavior in Draw.

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131758

Heiko Tietze <heiko.tietze at documentfoundation.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Keywords|needsUXEval                 |
                 CC|libreoffice-ux-advise at lists |heiko.tietze at documentfounda
                   |.freedesktop.org            |tion.org
             Status|NEEDINFO                    |NEW

--- Comment #23 from Heiko Tietze <heiko.tietze at documentfoundation.org> ---
The topic was on the agenda of the design meeting.

In general the behavior is similar to MSO and Inkscape with double-click to
finish (also Escape for MSO) and modifier keys to change the procedure
(somewhat unclear whether ctrl or alt; no obvious way to create polypoly shapes
in MSO). 

If we are going to change the behavior it needs to be a convincing improvement.
Something that might have an advantage is to add every step (resp. point) to
the undo stack so missing the double-click is easy to undo. The drawback is
clearly that users who want to undo the whole polygon creation have to click
through all steps and may dislike the change.

The recommendation is to keep the workflow as it is and have it well
documented. Unless a user joins the discussion (whether here or on
ask.libreoffice) all effort is quite academic.

Something that might support the work with polygons is an editable list of
attributes. It's also the only way to make this accessible. But IIRC we have
tickets on this...

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