[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 126352] New: “Create Style” Dialogue Does not Work Correctly if Opened via Menu or Toolbar

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126352

            Bug ID: 126352
           Summary: “Create Style” Dialogue Does not Work Correctly if
                    Opened via Menu or Toolbar
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 6.2.5.2 release
          Hardware: All
                OS: Windows (All)
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: UI
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: harald.koester at mail.de
            Blocks: 102946

In order to reproduce the bug:

[1] Create new text document.
[2] If sidebar is displayed close sidebar, close document and create new
document again.
[3] Start to create a new style with menu: Styles > New Style… The Create Style
dialogue is displayed. In a list box all “list” styles are displayed. Why are
these styles displayed here and now? I would expect an option to choose the
style type (paragraph style or character style or …).
[4] Click Help in dialogue. According to the displayed help page the
“user-defined” styles should be displayed in the list box. This is definitively
not the case, “all” list styles are displayed.
[5] Click a list style in the list box. The style is taken over to the text box
“Style Name”. Then OK. A message is displayed that the style already exists.
The message is OK but what is the sense of this takeover when you can't create
a new style with a name of an existing style? Close message.
[6] Insert a new name. Then OK. The current paragraph style is changed to the
new style. I only expect that a new style is created and that the current style
is not changed.
[7] Start to create another new style with the menu: Styles > New Style… Now
the “used” paragraph styles (Default Style and new style) are displayed.
Expected: Only display of user-defined styles. Then Cancel.
[8] Display styles with F11.
[9] Start to create another new style with the menu: Styles > New Style… Now
all paragraph styles are displayed. Expected: Only display of user-defined
styles.

Furthermore:

(1) I did not find a possibility to create other types of styles than paragraph
styles with the menu function.
(2) If you use the icon New Style in the toolbar Formatting at steps 3, 7 and 9
the behaviour is nearly equal, only at step 3 the listed styles are different.
Expected: Behaviour should be equal.
(3) The New File function from the horizontal toolbar of the deck Styles in the
sidebar also uses the Create Style dialogue. In this case the listed styles are
correct, i.e. only the user-defined styles are listed.
(4) Also in Calc the Create Style dialogue is used with similar problems.
(5) Bug occurred first with the introduction of the menu item Styles in Writer
(version 5.1.0).

Proposal: 

I do not really see an advantage to list existing or used styles if you like to
create a new style. So the list box User-defined Styles can be omitted. Instead
a possibility to choose a style type is needed. After such a choice the
respective style dialogue with the register Organizer should be opened.


Referenced Bugs:

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102946
[Bug 102946] [META] Styles bugs and enhancements
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