[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 58407] Call inserted images Figure rather than Illustration by default in caption

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58407

--- Comment #8 from sophie <gautier.sophie at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Yousuf Philips (jay) from comment #7)
> What is used in the competition.
> 
> MS Word     : Figure [listbox item]
> WordPerfect : Figure (auto inserted)
> TextMaker   : Figure & Picture [listbox items]
> 
> Similar to TextMaker, we could easily add an additional entry in the
> combobox for 'Figure', and this would also be beneficial for
> interoperability.
> 
> I am in favour of using Figure by default based on Owen's comment 1 and
> Heiko's comment 6, but believe some additional logic needs to be added to
> the caption and option dialogs to ensure a good UX.
> 
> 1. options dialog entry to set what the default entry should be. The
> dropdown list will have the entries 'Automatic' (default), 'Figure' and
> 'Illustration'.
> 
> 2. logic in the caption dialog to handle what to do when the 'Automatic'
> entry is set in the options dialog. If the document doesn't have any image
> captions, then it automatically select the 'Figure' entry, while if the
> document has image captions, it will detect whether to automatically use
> 'Figure' or 'Illustration' based on the existing image captions already
> present.
> 
> We should also ideally add a 'Table of Figures' type to the Table of
> Contents dialog, which has 'Table of Figures' as the title, and 'Figure' as
> the category.

In the AutoCaption dialog in Options, it's possible to set captions for all
modules automatically, so would that fit for Calc, Draw, Base etc? Why don't
call it Image, if it's what is inserted? Sophie

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