[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 152030] Allow regular deletion of selection containing an entire generated index/table

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152030

Cor Nouws <cno at nouenoff.nl> changed:

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--- Comment #5 from Cor Nouws <cno at nouenoff.nl> ---
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #4)

> No, this is not what the safety mechanism is for. The safety mechanism is
> intended to prevent making _changes_ to a generated table - because even
> though it has internal content, we want it to be considered as a single
> entity; and it gets re-rendered occasionally when we update, so we don't
> want to give the user the idea that they should edit the ToC/index
> themselves. There is no problem with deleting a generated table and we don't
> want to protect against that.
I do not support that reading - sorry :)
The dialog for indexes, offers a checkbox to turn protection off/on as well.

> The way this restriction is applied simply hinders the use of selection,
> deletion and overwrite mechanics.
It does.
Then the users checks, uses context-menu for index, etc.
Anyway, that is my suggestion.

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