[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 140702] It disappeared "To page" item from Anchor drop-down widget on Frame toolbar in Writer

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140702

--- Comment #12 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to Tomasz Sztejka from comment #11)

I am not a fan of the removal (although possibly I'm the one to blame for
inspiration for the removal); yet, I do still believe that by far most of
real-life uses of To Page anchoring are misguided. Users do not realize what it
does, and how could *what they really need* be achieved [1]. They confuse this
*rarely needed* option for something different, and then have problems (there
are lots of questions e.g. on Ask related to that).

Also our anchoring and positioning has many shortcomings (tdf#141160,
tdf#141161, tdf#141162 could possibly make people lives easier, and make the
urge to use To Page anchoring less).

So this option is actually a power-user option... with a potential to confuse
most of not-so-power users (the majority). So despite, as said, I am not a fan
of the change implemented in tdf#135836, I see it in fact as a big opportunity
for people to educate themselves on the proper way of doing things...

(I agree that if it is done, it should be documented, and possibly advertised
with some explanation of the proper way of doing what created most confusion.)

> No sane person expects that cross format conversion is done perfectly

Heh, I rarely see statements that have so little in common with reality ;-P The
truth is the opposite (or alternatively, 99% users are insane - but I suppose
they are just not too tech-savvy).

[1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Faq/Writer/AnchoringAndPositioning

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