[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 148593] "Left page border" and "right page border" options for Horizontal "to" position in Position and Size for shapes are misleading names, which should be changed

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148593

--- Comment #7 from Telesto <telesto at surfxs.nl> ---
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #6)
> Generally, the Position&Size tab is a mess!

I do agree :-)


> * What does protecting the size even mean, if there's no other control which
> affects the size?

Is about resizing or dragging the the textbox in document with mouse (drag &
drop and resize with drag handles)



> Specifically to this issue, the suggested renaming doesn't help, because the
> combined text + textbox values don't result in a reasonable sentence or
> phrase.
> 
> "Position: Horizontal: Left by 0.00 inch to Left page border"
> 
> Huh?

Well I'm struggling with the position vocabulary too :-)

> Option 1: Enable constructing the following phrases for Horizontal:
> 
> Align [F1] to [F2] with offset [F3]

This is surely an improvement on readability and even if you still struggle at
first, it surely easier to figure out... :-) The current vocabulary is really
confusing, IMHO.

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