[Libreoffice-ux-advise] simplifying the border width settings

[Cedric Bosdonnat]

On Sun, 2012-11-18 at 17:44 +0100, Michael Stahl wrote:
> > I propose to simplify this and limit the values to HAIRLINE, THIN,
> > MEDIUM and THICK with sensible values and map the old values to them.
> > This should not be such a big problem because until 3.6 at least the
> > UI behaved in a similar way due to a bug.
> 
> i don't think that is enough - users may want to import existing
> documents from OOo or MS Office and create new borders in them that
> match the existing ones in the document; so it would probably be a good
> idea to offer those widths which these applications can easily set in
> the UI, which is a bit more than 3 of each style.

Restricting sounds good, but pay attention with Word and Excel: they
have different sets of possible borders & width (Word had quite a lot
more) and as Michael wrote it, we need to keep being compatible with
both of them (and legacy borders) which is quite a mess.

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Cedric