[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 141942] New: Paste special dialog buttons too small and similar

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141942

            Bug ID: 141942
           Summary: Paste special dialog buttons too small and similar
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 7.1.2.2 release
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: minor
          Priority: medium
         Component: Calc
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: eyalroz1 at gmx.com

Created attachment 171465
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LO Calc 7.1.2.2 Paste Special Dialog

The preset buttons in the paste special dialog have a lot of "empty button
space", and very small icons relative to the button size. Couple that with
their being rather similar to each other, and they end up having the opposite
of the intended effect: misdirecting your eye and increasing rather than
decreasing the chance of clicking the wrong button.

The similarity is partly due to how the bulk of the icon is a clipboard. I get
the motivation of having the clipboard, but it does more good than harm, at
least the way things stand right now. And I feel that you sort of need to know
what the icon is supposed to mean before you can even guess what it means.

I wonder if they weren't partially inspired by the MS Office paste-mode icons
(see attachments). The latter are also not so great, but - they're in a narrow
right-click menu, not a dialog; and the clipboard there seems lighter, less
pronounced, relative to the indicators of the kind of pasting that goes on.

I don't have an exact suggestion of what I would like to see, especially since
there's also the text on the button which would need to move somewhere perhaps.
Maybe push it down a bit, and have a "before" and "after" graphic with some
arrow, better illustrating what changes in the paste? Anyway, the current state
of this is suboptimal IMHO.

PS - It looks like "formatting only" has no icon, but perhaps that would be a
separate bug.

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