[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 152550] Drop the "Basic Fonts" option dialogs

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152550

Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> ---
There is no "default document template" at all, until you define it manually -
e.g. in Templates section of the Start Center. When no template is made the
default, LibreOffice uses some settings set in user preferences (like the
"Basic Fonts" discussed here, *one of* the functions of which is setting this
global user preference, or the user's locale, which defines the page size). If
those settings are not set (or even are impossible to set without templates,
which is true for most of the numerous document settings), some hard-coded
program defaults are used.

I agree that the settings discussed here are very problematic. These settings
control these things:

1. User defaults stored in registrymodifications.xcu, used for new documents
created when no default template is set:
   <item oor:path="/org.openoffice.Office.Writer/DefaultFont*">
2. <style:style style:name="Standard" style:family="paragraph"> element in the
current document;
3. Properties of *some* user-visible pre-defined styles, like "Default
Paragraph Style" (which has internal name of "Standard").

And the #3 makes it especially bad, since this makes it completely not obvious
how this "feature" also controls #1 and #2 (as if these first two being joined
together were not bad enough).

Anyway, the simple removal of this is not a good thing, unless #1 and #2 are
moved to proper places (separately). I was sure there was a bug for it, but I
can't find it ATM.

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