[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 136961] Optimize handling of page orientation in Writer (based on landscape page)

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136961

--- Comment #7 from Telesto <telesto at surfxs.nl> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #6)
> I support the idea of a shortcut to toggle the orientation of the current
> page resp. the selected pages. It would be a UNO command that adds a page
> break before and after and applies a new page style / direct formatting to
> this section.
> 
> Suggest to change the summary accordingly.

Not really an objection to that suggestion. As it would mitigate part of the
issue described.  

However this not addressing the whole problem I see. I'm m still the opinion of
a dialog design flaw being present. Which I attempted to illustrate with the
page orientation approach.

The problem being (a) multiple ways of configuring page styles (or orientation)
(b) the dialog for apply styles being positioned at unexpected (or less
natural) place.  

If I did understand & remember the comment of Justin correctly, The organizer
Next Style thing being a compatibility option (which should be used to much).
However it has quite a prominent place.

In addition, if I want to manage - read change - my page style I tend to look
into the Page Style dialog (with the cursor on the page in question). Assuming
I can change the active page style.

I do get a dialog about page style configuration (but not setting a page
style). Activating a page style (other then using organizer tab) must be done
in the paragraph style dialog text flow tab. And setting page style in a
paragraph style dialog still doesn't make sense to me. Simply weird having to
look under paragraph for managing page styles.
Yes, technically it's attached to the first paragraph of a page - so in correct
in that sense. But this is really not intuitive user orientated approach. You
need to 'learn and remember' a counter-intuitive method; 

It might be solved by being able to set page style in the page style dialog too
(n some way) Similar way to the paragraph). And maybe hiding they next style a
bit (if the assumption of being of no 'use' - only compatibility thing - being
correct. As this as feature people aren't 'supposed to' use actively.

You should be able to set the page style of a page in the Page Style dialog. As
this is what the name (also) implies. If it's up to me :-). Even if the page
style is actually connected to the paragraph.

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