[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 139464] New: Usability: "Move or Copy Sheet"; the difference is subtle, but important

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139464

            Bug ID: 139464
           Summary: Usability: "Move or Copy Sheet"; the difference is
                    subtle, but important
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 6.4.6.2 release
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Calc
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: bug.spencor at yahoo.de

I just did a mistake and moved a sheet and continued editing (overwriting) when
I expected to copy the sheet and edit a copy (I overlooked the radio buttons on
the top to select copy or move); so basically I lost quite some amount of work
:-(.

While I don't want to blame anybody else for my stupid mistake, I ask myself
the question how often this happened before to anybody else, and how often it
will happen in the future.

In this case the application was not doing what I "intuitively" expected it to
do. Of course this is often subjective, but good usability would optimally
protect from that.

I would suggest to make two separate context menu entries for move and copy.

Alternatively, one could:
- Make "copy" default; data will be duplicated and the obselete sheet can still
be deleted, instead of resulting in an irreversible state
- Move the "Copy"/"Move"-choice to a separate dialog that is shown before the
main move/copy-dialog

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