[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 107901] Format Cells dialog overwrites user selection

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107901

--- Comment #25 from Kevin <timbacontent at gmail.com> ---
Addressing another part of comment 13 where you say "so we know what the bug
really does": the bug is that the Format Cells dialog is broken such that the
*user* doesn't know what it does! It doesn't behave logically and has seemingly
redundant features. It keeps doing things automatically with no explanation
that undo what they user has done. Try it in Excel and you'll see. It doesn't
need to be complicated - it can be "what you see is what you get", with one
border between two cells and no "remove border" checkbox.

Between two adjacent cells, there is either a line, or no line. It's binary.
The Format Cells should allow the user to specify whether there's a line, and
if so, what type of line (thickness, color, etc.). The dialog should show this
and when the dialog is dismissed the spreadsheet should appear as it appeared
in the dialog. Once the user changes the existence of, or appearance of, a line
between two cells in the dialog box, it should STAY that way until and unless
the user changes it, and it should stay that way in the spreadsheet as well.
Libre Calc keeps changing things it hasn't been asked to change.

This same core problem of losing settings runs through the whole interface,
whether it's borders, fonts, colors, font styles. Nearly all of the bugs I
reported relate to this core design flaw.

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