[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 140612] New: add an "Edit List Style" command to Text | List context menu, and Bullets and Numbering dialog should not modify List Styles

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140612

            Bug ID: 140612
           Summary: add an "Edit List Style" command to Text | List
                    context menu, and  Bullets and Numbering dialog should
                    not modify List Styles
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 7.2.0.0.alpha0+ Master
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: LibreOffice
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: sdc.blanco at youmail.dk

At present, .uno:BulletOutline (Format > Bullets and Numbering and Text | List
| Bullets and Numbering) can be used to modify both DF lists and List Styles. 

The dialog box opened with that command gives no indication that a List Style
is being modified.  (unless one notices that a list style name is indicated in
Status Bar)

In contrast, in Sidebar for List Styles, right-click on a list style and choose
"Modify".  Now an Organizer tab is included.

Proposals:  

1.  In the UI, the "Bullets and Numbering" command (dialog) should not modify
List Styles (as it does at present).

2.  When a List Style is being modified, it should be via an "Edit List Style"
command, with the List Style dialog (templatedialog16.ui) which has the
Organizer tab.  


Reasons:  

a. should be parallel to Character and Paragraph context menus, where it is
possible to edit a Character or a Paragraph (where that dialog does not modify
the Character Style or Paragraph Style).  For Character and Paragraph, there
are  separate dialogs that must be chosen to modify the Style (where these
dialogs also have an Organizer tab). 

I recognize that "Organizer" tab is more or less "useless" for List styles
(beyond giving a name to a custom style), but it gives a clear visual indicator
that a List Style is being modified, that is comparable to when styles in the
other style families are modified.  The clear indication that a List Style is
involved is the important issue here, where the Organizer tab is an already
established familiar appearance (i.e., other solutions might be possible).

b. at present, the Bullets and Numbering command in the Text | List context
menu modifies both List Style and DF list, with no clear indication for the
user that a List Style is being modified (i.e., what looks like an attempt to
apply direct formatting to a List Style actually changes the list style
definition).  


No strong suggestion for UI implications yet.  First need to clarify the
relation between .uno:OutlineBullet and its behavior in relation to DF versus
List Style.

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