[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 88559] Display of inherited attributes from parent styles in Styles dialog

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88559

--- Comment #15 from Caolán McNamara <caolanm at redhat.com> ---
Well, I don't really have any good answers wrt any specific solution, digging
around similar software doesn't show anything obvious to follow as a model.

But from a weld api view we use e.g. "set_message_type" to indicate that an
Entry contains an error and not specify how it indicates that error. So I could
imagine something similar that leaves it up to each backend to figure out what
to do to make that happen in the context of their own capabilities.

Maybe adding some "reset" to right context menus avoids the clutter of extra
buttons for that functionality, maybe labels are underlined  or widget
backgrounds set to some appropriate theme color.

Maybe something like this feature shouldn't be on all the time, but only if
some togglebutton in the button area is depressed. Such a special state would
give a little more leeway in that a backend could then position a little
"reset" button over the middle of widgets to allow them to be designated
reset-back-to-parent. Having a toggle to enable some sort of "overlay" like
that would sidestep visual clutter and any need to change any widget layout.

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