[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 107996] FORMATTING: Watermark feature in page style dialog

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107996

--- Comment #9 from Yousuf Philips (jay) <philipz85 at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to Jan Holesovsky from comment #8)
> From the competitive analysis point of view, eg. Word has the watermark
> quite prominently in the UI:
> 
> https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Insert-a-watermark-in-Word-f90f26a5-
> 2101-4a75-bbfe-f27ef05002de#ID0EAABAAA=2016,_2013

As we should compare apples with apples, yes a watermark button would be
visible in the tabbed Notebookbar similar to how it is in the Ribbon. Not sure
that i would classify it as quite prominent, when it is located in the 'Page
Background' group at the end of the Design tab, but yes it does have a large
button which is understandable as it is a group button with presets, which we
dont have. In 2010, it was located in the Page Layout tab, which is how i
assume we'll also do it in Notebookbar.

2013:
http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/extra/WINDOWS3/large/MS%20Word/Word%202013%20ribbon%20bar.png

2010:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MRLIhB075_E/UDs4h-XNAtI/AAAAAAAABiI/Q8c_CXuv1l8/s1600/Page+layout+Red.png

> Any reason to hide it in a dialog, instead of having it in the menu /
> sidebar / toolbar? :-)

Wouldnt call it hidden when its suggested to move it from a new dialog to an
existing one which contains all page-level properties, especially when the page
properties dialog has a more prominent position in the menu, it is available in
the context menu, and has its own dedicated deck/tab in the sidebar. :D

>From a different view, how would a user modify the watermark properties of a
page-style that hasnt been applied from the styles & formatting deck of the
sidebar if its not available in the page style dialog?

The main point is that all relevant properties should be accessible from a
single dialog, so users dont have to open multiple dialogs to access related
features, like unfortunately we have to for object properties (bug 96355).
Similar to MS Word, it groups watermark along with page color and page borders,
which are available in the page dialog. 

If the separate UNO command and dialog are still wanted, it is fine to include
the features in both places, but it wouldnt be listed in the Format menu as it
would be redundant.

Watermark should also go in the sidebar's Page deck/tab (bug 108651).

The feature isnt used enough to go into the standard toolbars.

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