[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 156994] Can't have text area shape the same as the drawing object's area shape

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156994

--- Comment #2 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> ---
(In reply to Regina Henschel from comment #1)

Regina, I believe you're approaching this from a problematic perspective, which
is over-adherence to MS Office conventions. If MSO has some quirk or bug, or is
missing a feature - we should not adopt this flaw as well in the name of
compatibility. Certainly, we should probably support MSO-like behavior as an
option, and enable it when importing MSO content; but we shouldn't enshrine and
enforce such faults.

The same goes for this issue. Microsoft decided to only offer rectangular text
areas. Ok, they were lazy (or had other priorities). And we kind of got used to
it over the years, since that's how things were in MSO. But that's not what the
unbiased user would expect: They would (rightly) consider the choice of a
rectangle for the text of a shape object to be arbitrary and gratuitous, as
they have not indicated they want to limit the text or other content by some
rectangular lines cutting through their circle or ellipse.


> When you want, that the outline of the shape bounds the text, then use
> another type of shape.

Note that we're talking about the opposite: The text should fit itself to the
shape, not vice versa. Also, I'm not asking for help achieving this effect (for
which your suggestion is good advice) - I'm asking for something to be doable
without expending any special thought or effort, or at most the minimal amount
of a toggle.

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