[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 113603] Enhancement: unified table management in Writer

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113603

--- Comment #5 from Christian Lehmann <christianw_lehmann at arcor.de> ---
Hi Heiko,
not being a developer, I am, of course, in no position to fight for my
proposal. Nevertheless, here are a few clarifications:
- According to my proposal, a frame is drawn around a table if the user is
editing the table. This would be as helpful in Writer as it is in Calc.
- Doing anything with the table just only because the cursor is hovering over
it does not seem a good idea to me; this might indeed be annoying to the user.
- The point is not to give the user feedback on the state that Writer is
currently in. The point is to render table management clear and simple. In my
proposal, I had counted numbers of mouse clicks and keys pressed. None of the
alternate proposals that have been mentioned fare better on this count.
- My proposal is not restricted to operations of Copy/Cut/Paste (incl. Shift).
It offers unified management of a whole set of further table operations.
Moreover, is uniformity across different applications in LO not a virtue?
- Is it an essential aspect of LO policy that it should imitate MS Word?
Particularly in questions of table management, this would seem a bad idea to
me. (There are, to be sure, features in which Word does fare better.)
- When you write "The proposal doesn't consider a selection within the table
(e.g. A2:B3)", you are not referring to my proposal, are you? Its entire
section 2 is devoted to this problem.
Cheers, Christian

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