[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 126608] Writer: Can't switch to Portrait

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126608

--- Comment #57 from V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote at utsa.edu> ---
(In reply to Todd from comment #55)
> 
> > Meanwhile examine the behavior of the Status bar indicator of the Page
> > style, it is context menu (i.e. r-mouse click) enabled to allow you to
> > select from the defined page styles and will display the Name of the page
> > style applied to the document page with text cursor focus.  It does not give
> > any indication when the style has been modified from its template defaults.
> > Open attachment 153099 [details], its view mode should make the page styling
> > apparent.
> 
> I do understand what you are saying.  But from a users standpoint, you are
> tell him that up is down and down is up.  Portrait is Landscape and
> Landscape is Portrait.  This is a nightmare for the user.  Do you expect the
> user to code directly in XML so he gets what he wants?  The user expects the
> "Style" pop up to be the style of the current page and subsequent pages NOT
> THE WHOLE STINKING DOCUMENT.  The Style pop up should create a new set of
> rules in a new or previously used style.  Styles themselves are a great way
> of doing this, but your flow control of styles is what is in question, not
> the styles themselves.
> 

The Page style field of the Status bar shows the *named* Page Style as pulled
from the Master-Page template (the "<style:master-page style:name=" stanzas)
for the document. It also will list any new styles that are added to the
current document authoring session. What it will not show/can not show is when
a user makes a format change to the style that makes the style name
meaningless!  Like when you change the Default (i.e. portrait) page layout to
landscape, and then essentially rename it. 

The Status bar widget displays the same list of styles that the 'All Styles'
view of the Sidebar -> Styles deck Page content panel will list. The Sidebar
content panel is sorted--but it is the same list. Styles for both list widgets
are click assignable to the document page with current text cursor focus.

> You have to look at this from the user's standpoint, not the developers. 

We do, continuously. That is why we have a UX team and why beyond triage and QA
we end up doing user support/training in the BZ, occasionally good RFE are spun
off as a result.

> This bug report all started with me having to urgently send a customers a
> document with mixed Landscape (first page) and Portrait mixed together and I
> could not figure out how in the h*** I lost my ability to use Portrait (he
> accepted everything is Landscape, fortunately).
> 

Well, I hope you now understand how trivial it is to do just that, and to
recover when you've misapplied or corrupted a style, or I've wasted way more
time than this non-issue merits ;-)

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