[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 155054] UI: Remediate frustration of unclear style names in style-name picklist contexts

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155054

Heiko Tietze <heiko.tietze at documentfoundation.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Blocks|107833                      |103427

--- Comment #4 from Heiko Tietze <heiko.tietze at documentfoundation.org> ---
Some of the paragraph styles (PS) are used by internal functions such as
"Content <n>" for the Table of Contents (check the Styles tab), and some depend
on the context, for example Caption > Text- you may want a different PS for
frame captions vs. tables captions.

The Stylist (this complex sidebar UI) has various filters to accommodate many
different needs. The full list is not recommendable for novices; and while you
like the tree it's not a simple UI. Some effort has been done to bring the best
into the Automatic style (for example bug 69551).

Please review bug 103427 for duplicates, there are many. I think your request
is not actionable (we cannot submit a patch that resolves an issue) nor
entirely justified.

We can discuss some names, fiddle around with the organization but in the end
it remains the same workflow. And the actual use case of "I struggle to pick
the right PS for my task" requires to read the documentation. 

The second part of expanding a dropdown into a tree makes no sense to me. Trees
are not recommended usability-wise (although expert user may love it), neither
the styles dropdown nor the Notebookbar styles area list all PS but offer
access to the Stylist. Lot of room for improvements here, see bug 90646, bug
93111, bug 143987, and bug 153581. Just to pick a few.

My take here: WONTFIX (ticket has been tagged as needsUXEval so we seek for
input from different people ideally and either agree and forward to developers
or resolve WF/NAB; you can always reopen a ticket, I wont close it again).


Referenced Bugs:

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103427
[Bug 103427] [META] Styles and Formatting sidebar deck and floating window
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107833
[Bug 107833] [META] Writer paragraph style bugs and enhancements
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