[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 107825] New: UX: Handling of empty textboxes

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107825

            Bug ID: 107825
           Summary: UX: Handling of empty textboxes
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 5.4.0.0.alpha1+ Master
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: Writer
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: telesto at surfxs.nl

Description:
It's probably by design, but the user experience with textboxes is quite
horrible (in my humble opinion). 

The issues I encounter are related to the fact that:
* Textboxes don't have any (visualized) border when deselected
* Empty text objects get removed automatically (because otherwise you might
fill you document unintentionally with unused, empty and mostly invisible
objects without noticing)

The textbox will disappear when trying to:
- dragging empty textbox (see also: bug 98856)
- pasting text into an empty textbox using right click paste
- make layout changes to the textbox before adding content
- when cutting all the content out of a textbox and paste it into the regular
text  (with the intention to use the textbox for something else). 

Text selection
- Text can be behind a textbox without knowing (until you click on it)

The rule of deleting empty text objects isn't working when: 
- A textbox is containing some content (space; enter)
- when adding and empty textbox and press CTRL+Z afterward

Actual Results:  
Textbox is invisible and will deleted if deselected and empty

Expected Results:
- Textboxes should be deleted automatically
- Textboxes have some sort of border the indicate size and position when
deselected


Reproducible: Always

User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
Version: 5.4.0.0.alpha1+
Build ID: 970b431f1a7b6b96c4c9536657ce4fe9d8f5b585
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 6.2; UI render: default; 
TinderBox: Win-x86 at 62-TDF, Branch:MASTER, Time: 2017-05-11_23:07:53
Locale: en-US (nl_NL); Calc: single


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/45.0

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