[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 78326] Can't delete a table in Impress/Draw if cells are selected

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78326

--- Comment #31 from Stepas Toliautas <stepas.toliautas at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #30)
> It is empirically true. That is, when a user clicks the frame of a table, or
> another object, they expect an operation on the entire object. At least,
> many, and I'd say almost all, users expect this.

All of the statements in your comment are correct (IMHO), but you seem to be
replying to a different argument, since the wording was "The user expects
operation on the whole object (cut or delete) without dependency to any
selection state". While you rightfully point out that there are (at least) two
different selection states.
Also, fix for Writer tables does not follow the cut/ delete consistency, which
I'm actually not happy about: there should be a difference between table
selection and all all-cell selection, and cut/ delete should be symmetric
within these selection modes.
Going back to Impress, there are two current bugs that make practical use
difficult regardless of UI choices: a) it's hard to select Impress table as
object (since single-click from outside selects all cells as well) and b)
during clicking-and-dragging of cells from within, any contact with table frame
-- as well as simply selecting all cells -- automatically selects the frame as
well. In effect, many new users only ever see "everything selected" mode, which
does not even behave as expected.
So, I guess... let's fix Impress table selection first? (5 years and counting)

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