[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 104487] Function Wizard should remember Category selection per session

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104487

--- Comment #17 from ady <adylo811517 at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Andreas Heinisch from comment #16)
> So, what is your proposal?
> 
> If there is an empty cell with no function, we should select the "Last Used"
> category?

I thought I presented my proposal in comment 10. Then I clarified it further in
comment 13, and then in comment 15. Let's try again.

Try to reproduce the steps I described, paying attention to the default
Category each time you open the F.W.

Start on an empty cell, choose one function in the F.W. and introduce a
complete formula in that cell.

Then move-on to another cell and use the F.W. with a different function from a
_different_ category.

Repeat for 3 or 4 cells, with different functions from different categories.
Which Category do you see by default when you open the F.W. in each empty cell
before introducing a formula? Is the "Last Used" Category _ever_ the default?
If it isn't, then imagine what would happen if it was in this particular
scenario? Do you think it would reduce the amount of clicks if you were to need
those same 3 or 4 functions again (and again...)? What would happen if a
formula in one cell is composed by several nested functions from different
categories?

Then imaging a user having to introduce functions from the _same_ Category.

* The advantage of having Category "All" by default on empty cells (i.e.
behavior before your patch) is discover-ability.

* The advantage of having by default the same Category (whichever that might
be, including "Last Used" and/or "All") as the last time the F.W. was used in
the session (i.e. proposed behavior) is efficiency.

Having the default _Category_ being remembered (which is not always the same as
using the category of the last used function) from the last time the F.W. was
used (in the same session) allows for all scenarios. Some use-cases would
prefer "All", others would go for "Last used", and other use-cases would select
one particular Category (e.g. "Mathematical") again and again – only the latter
being your patch from comment 7.

The same user sometimes would prefer one use-case, and sometimes another.

In all these scenarios, typing-in within the Search field of the F.W. would
immediately show the Category named "All", as it happens currently.

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