[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 112852] Should unapplying Bold remove the attribute or force text to Regular?

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112852

--- Comment #9 from csongor at halmai.hu ---
This question is really a throny one and whichever solution we pick, there will
be use cases when the result is counter-intuitive, annoying or frustrating for
the users. 

So, I propose to add some explanation to the UI that helps the user to
understand what is happening. 

I think we could use something that is similar to the DOM inspector in the
Developer Tools of the modern browsers (Firefox, Chrome) that explains how
Style Sheet rules work.

When the user clicks an element on the web page (places a virtual cursor there)
then the DOM inspector shows what rules are applied to that part of the
document and how the contradicting rules override each other producing the end
result. 

It simply just lists all the rules and their declaration components that are
applied to the given position and strikes thruogh the ones that are overridden
by some other. After a short learning curve it is quite usable. 

I created a screen shot which shows how LibreOffice could display such a tool
in the Styles And Formatting dialog. I called it just Style Explainer. 

Unfortunately this is not a simple change in LO, it is quite a lot of work to
implement but it would be awesome to use. Actually, I think it would be a
feature that can attarct new users to the LO so maybe it is worth working on
it. :)

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