[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 103158] Pressing ctrl+shift switches direction on key down

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103158

--- Comment #15 from Nadav Har'El <nyh at math.technion.ac.il> ---
The fact that this bug has been open for half a year although it is already
understood what causes it leads me to conclude that the people involved
underestimate its severity or believe it bothers only few people.

As an RTL user, let me tell you that this is a very serious issue, because it
causes paragraphs' directions to spontaneously flip on the mere press of the
"control" key, as explained previously in comments here, and in the duplicate I
created, bug 107284. The effect is very subtle - you edit a long document, and
suddenly the direction of one of the paragraph "flips". For a long paragraph,
often the only change visible is the alignment of the paragraph's last line,
which you can sometimes miss and only notice later. Moreover, it's not clear
*why* this happened. I've seen this problem dozens of times over the last few
months, and even added a shortcut for "correcting" it (making a paragraph RTL
again), before I figured out what (the "control" key) can actually trigger this
problem.

I'm guessing that 99% of the RTL users (Hebrew and Arabic writers) have come
across this problem in recent months, without being able to explain it, and
certainly not figuring out that *this* issue is about the same problem. So it's
not surprising we don't see a hundreds voters or duplicates on this issue. But
it's still extremely annoying.

It's *not* a feature - it's a bug. Nobody wants a "feature" which flips a
paragraph direction on the press of a key. Flipping a paragraph's direction is
very rarely a useful operation - and doing it with just the "control" key (just
because previously you also pressed, somehow, shift, in an unrelated operation)
is absurd.

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