[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 131040] Table Cell Background Color from 6.2.8 Writer can't be changed in 6.3.4 and higher

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131040

Ming Hua <ming.v.hua at qq.com> changed:

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--- Comment #6 from Ming Hua <ming.v.hua at qq.com> ---
(In reply to Maxim Monastirsky from comment #5)
> (In reply to Ming Hua from comment #4)
> > The two buttons are placed in similar positions on the toolbar and use the
> > same icon, though.  I think there is a serious UX problem here.
> I disagree. It was a common request to have this button apply cell
> background and not paragraph background (see Bug 82504). After all, the
> button is placed on the table toolbar, and as such should apply cell
> attributes.
It's perfectly valid to change the button to apply cell background instead of
paragraph background once the feature is implemented.  The problem is that it
causes confusion for users editing old documents, as shown by this bug report. 
This change in toolbar is not even mentioned in the release notes, only the
newly available UNO command is mentioned
(https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.3#Writer).  Ordinary user
would rarely expecting the behavior change of a button by reading that.  Or by
reading the new tooltip (although it specifies "Table Cell Backgroud Color",
the old one is simply "Background Color").

> But even if we accept that there is indeed a problem here, what can we do to
> avoid this problem? I doubt that changing the button placement or icon will
> make any difference, as we have this kind of changes anyway between
> releases. It's also unlikely that people will even notice a minor change to
> the icon.
Well, ideally, LO could see the current cell has no cell background color, but
has paragraph background color, and either offer two buttons on the toolbar or
somehow alert the user.  Or LO can alert the user when opening an document with
paragraph BG color instead of cell BG color.  Or change the default setting to
have cell BG color overriding paragraph BG color, unless the user explicitly
change paragraph BG color again.  I'm sure UI and UX experts will have better
ideas.

I'm not proposing reverting the change to the button here.  I'm just saying
this is a real UX problem, and simply closing it as NOTABUG is very
discouraging to our bug-reporting users.

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