[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 154410] Improve Calc's Format > Align Text menu's contents and labels

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154410

--- Comment #4 from Stéphane Guillou (stragu) <stephane.guillou at libreoffice.org> ---
(In reply to ady from comment #1)
> (In reply to Stéphane Guillou (stragu) from comment #0)
> > alignment, which needs to be present to revert a change made from the menu
> > (and be on par with the toolbar's de-activating of alignment options;
> 
> I'm not sure I understand the need for that point.

It's a design principle: "Provide access to all functions via the menu bar"
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Guidelines
Obviously, this is not applied 100% to all functions, otherwise we would have
overwhelmingly large menus. But we should absolutely make the default setting
available in the menu.

> Another possibility could be to have the menu entries work as the icons;
> select once and the attribute is set (and the menu entry (icon) would look
> "pressed"); select the "pressed" menu entry again and the "default"
> alignment would be set. The menu entries and the icons in the toolbar(s)
> would/should be in sync.

That's true, but seeing Heiko's comment, I'd go with the extra option.

(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #2)
> (In reply to Stéphane Guillou (stragu) from comment #0)
> > - its functions can be used for other things than text, for example shapes;
> 
> Isn't it in the cell formatting dialog though?

I'm talking about the menu, not the dialog. I guess it's a UNO command that has
different effects depending of what is in the current selection.

> > - "Format > Align Text" relabelled to "Alignment" because it doesn't just
> > affect text. This matches the tab title in the Format Cells dialog.
> 
> What else does it affect? In the other bug, you mentioned "numbers", but
> numbers are also text.

I affects the relative position of shapes, see above.

(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #3)
> The to-be-introduced UNO command is not limited for the main menu. Users may
> want it on the standard toolbar or somewhere else.

I'd let you decide on this one. Toolbar allows "turning it off" back to
Default, so the current situation is not as bad as for the menu.

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