[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 133439] Character styles break Find and replace using attributes Font+size

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133439

--- Comment #5 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to Luke Kendall from comment #4)

Your PoV is not incompatible with mine; but your idea that just thinking that
"not using styles is OK makes anything useful" (I will explain below) is
incorrect.

You say something like "you (Mike Kaganski) tell that Writer is for using
styles; but there are people who don't use styles, and your approach reject
that large class of users". You are wrong.

What I say is that the two workflows are very different, and when users don't
use styles, they don't need to search for styles. When users use styles, they
do that differently. These both workflows *don't* require searching for "bold
applied through style" - or you need to provide a specific use case where it's
needed. Even if you provide that, we need to consider ways to keep Writer in a
state where both ways are distinct, and do not result in *poorer* experience to
*both* classes of users. E.g., a specific use case that you may provide could
have an alternative solution, not mixing the two totally different kinds of
"formatting". Only when there's an agreement that there exists a case that is
important enough to consider "regressing" of workflow for some other group of
users, should we consider doing that: not "I found something that I *guess*
sometimes may be unexpected for an imagined user - but I don't know if that's
actually a real case; let's change that for that imagined case". That's my
point.

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