[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 135460] BORDERS TAB IN PARAGRAPH DIALOG: Make selection of borders in User-defined preview more visible (see comment 7)

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135460

Heiko Tietze <heiko.tietze at documentfoundation.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |DUPLICATE
                 CC|                            |telesto at surfxs.nl

--- Comment #10 from Heiko Tietze <heiko.tietze at documentfoundation.org> ---
(In reply to Dieter from comment #9)
> Problems
> a) Perhaps it's at least not clear, that, changes in line area affects all
> selected border areas, also areas with no border (no idea, how to make it
> more clearly
Well, the preview is showing clearly what you do.

> b) If you click into a border area, border area gets a dashed rectangle as
> indication of selection, but if you assign for example a color to that area,
> rectangle disappears, although area is still selected (indicated by grey
> arrows)
True, this is misleading. But you also loose the selection frame when the
dialog is not in focus anymore (switching to another application while keeping
the UI visible). That might depend on the OS but is caused by some default UI
interaction.

> c) Arrows should be more visible
The arrows are just an additional indicator for the selection.


All the trouble results from the fact that we overload the preview with
functions. You can enable/disable lines by clicking it and you can multi-select
border to apply, for example, a line style to left and bottom at once. If the
OP expects here a change for only one line, let's say the bottom, there are
many scenarios where changing all at once is preferred for convenience.
Ultimately the concept works not so well and we have many tickets around this
UI (Telesto put his finger on this wound a lot). A proposal for solution is in
bug 143249. So let's continue there.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 143249 ***

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