[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 66472] A suggestion for better ergonomics for column, row, and cell actions in Calc

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66472

--- Comment #13 from Laurent Lyaudet <Laurent.Lyaudet at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #12)
> Quite uncommon use case, right? Hm... maybe not if you want to unhide
> everything. But this could be solved with a context menu on the edge cell
> itself. Or a dedicated command / menu item.
Hi Heiko,
The very initial goal was effectively to unhide everything.
I cannot judge whether it is an uncommon use case because I have only my own
experience.

Nevertheless, I did not stop with the initial problem.
I analyzed a more general problem with a rational point of view to avoid doing
the same work over and over.
My proposition is an optimal UI/UX *with mouse* in terms of the number of
clicks:
- for row actions (2 clicks instead of 3 at the moment),
- for columns actions (2 clicks instead of 3 at the moment),
- for cell actions (2 clicks instead of 3 at the moment),
- for row and column actions at the same time (2 clicks instead of 5 at the
moment)
Having a classification of actions into one or two of these sets of actions is
easy to do in code.
You add a new action, it falls into one or two of these sets and voilà.
No need for a dedicated command / menu item.
If you do not split the edge cell with one of my two designs,
but add only a contextual menu with cell actions and simultaneous row and
column actions,
it will solve 2 of the four cases, including the one with the biggest gain (2
clicks instead of 5).
It would not be optimal for the mouse users in all cases but it would still be
a nice improvement.

Now, I don't understand why there is so much need for administrative or
politician debate around a feature that is optimal for mouse users.
I can understand that the devs are too busy but otherwise I don't see the point
of preferring "worse" over "better".
I am paranoid so I thought for years (this feature request is 7 years old)
that:
- either Microsoft Office has infiltrated people in Libre Office and nice
features are always object of a lot of nit-picking to bury them under
going-nowhere debate,
- or there is a problem with my person, in which case it seems that hate of a
single individual like me is stronger than love of LibreOffice's users.
- or it is just plain old jealousy and standard abuse of power as is customary
in politics, administrative processes, in business company, in states
administrations and in civil society organizations unfortunately too. 
Can you share with us your motivations for arguing that my feature request is
not a good one?

Best regards,
    Laurent Lyaudet

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