[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125268] Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125268

--- Comment #7 from Tamás Zolnai <zolnaitamas2000 at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Telesto from comment #5)
> Looks like bug 97865 see also bug 107793 (and related bug 116458 bug 115291
> bug 113872)
> 
> @Buovjaga
> Any advise on handling this re-occurring type of bug report. Keeps coming up
> once in a while (and gets confirmed too) Ends in NOTABUG, WONTFIX, DUPLICATE
> of something.. Feels a bit like suppressing the issue
> 
> There is quite the 'surprise factor'. You save A and get B on reload. I
> would even consider it calling DataLoss..
> 
> Current situation is quite terrible; IMHO. However no solution has come up
> in the mean time (except better documentation). But I call that more a
> 'excuse' type of argument. 
>  
> I personally prefer the 'old way' prior to LibO 5.0 by default (so using
> text background). But technical/ terminological 'wrong' I guess. And the
> number of complains are rather limited (or people stopped used LibreOffice
> for this reason)
> 
> ---------------
> 
> Before the 5.0 version sometimes we saved Writer text background as shading
> (doc, docx), sometimes as highlighting (rtf). From that version an option is
> added, so the user can select the preferred behavior. Highlighting became
> the default, because on LO UI text background is called highlighting. This
> option can be set also via user profile.
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.0

Before the change, the complaint was that the user could not change the
highlighting color in Word because it was not highlighting, but shading and it
is actually more intuitive that this color is highlighting since LO calls it
also that way. Before this change, user can't do anything with that, by now the
user can change the settings and export text background as shading if he needs
it to work on that way.

About the data loss. That is true, but it's always a risk to save to an alien
format that something is not exported as is. Even Word warns you when you save
something in the older DOC format that you may lose something. It's the same in
LO.

Changing default value there and back also a bad idea, because after that those
user will come to complain who are happy with the current default and then what
will you do? So I would stick to this default behavior and when there is a
complaint always mention the corresponding option.

If there is a better solution to handle these two types of character background
(e.g. shading and highlighting) patches are always welcome, but changing the
default behavior does not actually improve the situation.

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