[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 47295] Default paragraph style should be "Text body" and not "Default"

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47295

--- Comment #30 from Clarc <f.thaler at posteo.net> ---
Somehow, this wasn't implemented yet...

Here's my input as a (somewhat) new user:
1. Having 'Default Paragraph Style' as the beginning-default seems
counterintuitive. Very rarely do most inexperienced users do anything, that
requires the default style to immediately be available.
The argument that "At the beginning of the document, no styles are assigned  ->
'Default Paragraph Style'" sounds convincing, but from the perspective of a
user that just wants to quickly get work done it doesn't make much sense.

2. Looking at my parents (who probably resemble the big non-technical
userbase), it's horrible to see this happen:
    2.1. Makes a new document
    2.2. Writes a little (or a lot of) text
    2.3. "Oh, let me add a title"
    2.4. "And lets add headings!"
    2.5. "And lets add a little text after the headings!"
    2.6. Continues writing 
  2.7. After all this work, formatting everything is a nightmare. You can't
just change 'Text-body' to have certain traits and be done because, well, half
of the document was written using 'Default Paragraph Style'. And you shouldn't
change 'Default Paragraph Style' because of obvious reasons.
  Which means, you (the new-to-LO-user) most likely has to select EVERYTHING,
turn it into 'Text-body' and format it or format it directly. Alternatively,
the user could format each paragraph individually.

Having to go through such a frustrating process when either trying out LO for
the first time or when being a non-computer-fluent user makes people run back
to Microsoft Word. Which I hate to see because LO is amazing.
Having the shipped document-templates start with 'Text-Body' is a good
improvement to LibreOffice, in my opinion.

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