[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 140752] .uno.DefaultNumbering and .uno:defaultBullet (on Formatting bar) modify a list style -- should it?

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140752

--- Comment #5 from sdc.blanco at youmail.dk ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #2)
> Cannot follow. What I do is
> 
> 1. Add some lines of text a,b,c
> 2. Apply list style "Numbering 123" via stylist to these lines
> 3. Per "Toggle Ordered List" on the toolbar I switch to round brackets
4. Open Styles deck and edit list style Numbering 123 to confirm in the style
dialog that the change has also been registered for Numbering 123 List style.

Whether it was the developers intention or not (comment 4), it also seems like
a UI/UX problem. If you (by mistake) used the dropdown box in the Formatting
toolbar to change the numbering scheme of your list style, as in your example
(or even worse, choose the lower right corner in the Outline tab of B&N
dialog), then any formatting that you did with position and customize is lost
in your Numbering 123 list style. Afaict, all operations in the Bullets and
Numbering dialog (including Outline) will modify the settings in a list style. 
This is not consistent with the usual style interactions (i.e., with character
and paragraph, using character or paragraph dialog or using Formatting bar does
not modify CS or PS).

My aim with this bug report is to highlight this issue -- in the belief that
others will find it problematic - and might try to address the problem. Even if
the existing underlying implementation of lists is not changed, there are
probably a number of UI changes that could be done to preserve the "mythic"
beliefs around significant differences between DF and List Styles. Bug 140612
was one small UI suggestion in that direction. But now I think my aim is
achieved, so I will leave the matter to more qualified persons.

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