[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 130719] Overwriting Writer styles does not overwrite changes to Marginalia paragraph style

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130719

--- Comment #4 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> ---
So the problem is: a template shipped with LibreOffice (named "Default"?) does
not include an explicit definition of a standard style in it, thus any document
created from it has that style auto-generated from the hardcoded defaults; and
of course, overwriting styled of a specific document with styles of that
template does not affect any styles absent in the template definition?

Possibilities:

1. Make sure to define all the styles in shipped templates
   - maintenance burden: in case a default is changed in code, the templates
need to be edited to comply (it would be a shame if shipped templates don't do
what is considered good for a default case without a reason).
   - possible implementation problem (not checked): doesn't LO strips out a
definition that fully matches the default?

2. Make the Load Styles to always load full set of standard styles - from
defaults if absent
   + would not need maintenance of templates
   - would disallow the opposite need: if someone wants to not include some of
the standard style in the hope that it does *not* get updated (no idea if that
is a real case, just speculating)

2.1. Make it ("[x] Overwrite standard styles absent in the template with
defaults") optional in Load Styles dialog
   + keeps flexibility

3. NOTABUG/WONTFIX

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