[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 156089] When setting the Heading/Outline Numbering for a level to "None", still getting separators

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156089

--- Comment #10 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #9)
> (In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #8)
> I don't buy the use case. You may exactly want to use None with
> some prefix  - and any modification is unwanted. 

I was replying to your use case of "you accidentally switch to None." This use
case you now claim - does not exist. Why?  Using "none with some prefix" means
using a fixed symbol which doesn't advance with additional paragraphs; that is
called: A bullet. I challenge you to demonstrate a reasonable use case in which
anyone wants to use No-numbering with a prefix, and a bullet is not more
appropriate.

> > 2. How about if we only deleted it when the user had _not_ manually set the
> > values since last arriving at the pane?
> You probably mean settings made in a previous session.

No, I don't. We could do that too, that's a third alternative. But we could
just add a couple of "edited while pane is in focus" booleans to the code,
which, when true, guard these fields against being reset. That said, I agree
with your claim that it

> Sounds like a lot of work for no good reason.

... and actually believe it is of basically zero use to maintain the prefix and
suffix settings when you switch to None. I believe you are throwing up
nonexistent or super-niche use cases to defend the surprising and cumbersome
behavior in the common use case.

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