[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 #16 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to Tomasz Sztejka from comment #15)

Thanks for the post!
Basically, I wanted to say that your post is not a contradiction to mine, but
rather a clarification of some points there. E.g., I write "... Users do not
realize what it does, and how could *what they really need* be achieved ..."
and "... users misused (misunderstood) the "to page" anchoring ...", and you
describe how *some* (minority of ;-P) users *could* discover that. I mostly
agree with you (well, except for "Object anchored to page stays in it's
relative position to page corner. This is in fact a bit problematic because it
is hard to guess to "which page corner". This, as far as I remember from an old
OpenOffice, used to work fine with manual page breaks, but now it seems to
ignore it what is confusing" - no, it worked this way from the beginning, e.g.
in OOo 1.0.3; and except for "if You add or remove a MANUAL PAGE BREAK. In my
opinion it should move then", which is exactly the misconception which caused
this bug).

But would you like to implement what you rightfully mention as missing? It's as
easy as:
1. Creating an account at TDF;
2. Logging in to https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/;
3. Browsing to "help" repository;
4. Creating a new change for it;
5. Opening the xhp file named like the related help page (e.g., for
https://help.libreoffice.org/7.0/en-US/text/shared/01/05260100.html it would be
"text/shared/01/05260100.xhp");
making the required changes in plain text in the Web UI, and starting a review.

More on that at https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation.

> Maybe it is a problem because it never worked as it should work?

Note that "work" is an ambiguous. In this discussion, it's important to
disambiguate the two aspects:
1. How anchored objects behave when layouting (i.e., how they behave when the
anchored-to object moves, when the anchor settings do not change);
2. How the anchoring UI behaves (i.e., how the tools work that define the
anchor settings).

And #1 generally works as it should. But #2 needs much improvements (my bugs
mentioned in comment 12, and largely your comment, are focused on this).

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