[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 88148] Image caption management forces to insert a category and numbering even if you do not need it

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88148

Robinson Tryon (qubit) <qubit at runcibility.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEW
                 CC|                            |libreoffice-ux-advise at lists
                   |                            |.freedesktop.org,
                   |                            |qubit at runcibility.com
          Component|Writer                      |ux-advise
           Hardware|x86 (IA32)                  |All
     Ever confirmed|0                           |1
                 OS|Windows (All)               |All

--- Comment #1 from Robinson Tryon (qubit) <qubit at runcibility.com> ---
TESTING with LO 4.4.0.2 + Ubuntu 14.04

(In reply to Andy from comment #0)
> Here we go:
> 
> Open a writer doc, insert any image. In the context menu, choose "insert
> caption"

It's just "Caption" for me in 4.4.0.2.

> The "category" list allows to add a repeating word automatically, like
> "table" etc.; there is also the item <none> which is needed when you want to
> create a caption with no repeating word or numbering.
> 
> The problem n. 1 is, if you choose the latter option, the "OK" button is
> deactivated and you actually cannot insert the caption without a repeating
> starting word.

CONFIRMED
Status -> NEW
Hardware -> (generalize)

> 
> Problem n.2 is as follows: in the dialog window, open the category list and
> choose "none": the OK button is greyed out. Then reopen the list and choose
> any other category. After this, if you try to choose "none" again, this is
> impossible, and the category reverts to the last one right after you try and
> fail to select none with the mouse.

CONFIRMED as well

> 
> Problem n.3 is that even if it would be possible to actually select <none>
> in the category list, there is no "none" item in the "numbering" list, so it
> appears that avoinding a numbering would be impossible all the same
> 

CONFIRMED as well

> I know that the rule is "one problem, one bug report", but here the issues
> are so closely related that filing 3 distinct reports seemed inappropriate.
> 
> Workaround: you can leave the default category, insert the caption with the
> unwanted word at the beginning, and then manually delete the word and the
> numbering in each caption for each picture if you do not want them. This is
> of course a burdensome process. 
> Note that the "categorized" captions are commonplace in scientific
> publications, but they are almost never used in other kind of documents (in
> a magazine or newsletter for example, most of the times captions are not
> categorized nor numbered).

Yep -- sounds like a reasonable concern. Handing this the UX folks for their
input on what types of captioning should be available.
Component -> ux-advise

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