[Libreoffice-ux-advise] Modify the "format paintbrush" behaviour

[Christoph Noack]

Hi Maxime, all!

Wow, you ask somebody who never was in favor of having so many different
"transfer the formatting"-functionality in LibreOffice / OOo ;-)

Am Donnerstag, den 24.11.2011, 14:59 +0100 schrieb Maxime de Roucy:
> Hello
> 
> I am the author of https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43067 
> 
> For me the "format paintbrush" function should copy and paste the exact
> format of text and paragraph.
> 
> The selected text where the format is apply should look exactly like the
> text where the format has been copied.
> 
> Do you agree ?

So, I've read parts of the spec, looked at the LibO issue and the OOo
issue. So if I get it right, you ask whether the "hard formatting"  from
the source object should replace any "hard formatting" of the target
object? Today, we seem only to add the "hard" formatting to the target.

Right? If yes, then I agree with your point-of-view - although we do
have lots of user who might be used to the given kind of behavior.

And now my *personal* point-of-view: There shouldn't be a format
paintbrush, but the copy-and-paste functionality might be used as well
to copy styles / formatting.

Cheers,
Christoph