[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

--- Comment #7 from R. Bingham <rdbingham at verizon.net> ---
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #6)
> Lots of text in this request - enough to make it a bit inaccessible to
> readers to be honest.
> 
> Anyway, IMHO, it would be beneficial to see the hierarchy when selecting a
> style for "Next Style" or "Inherit from"; but if this were made into too big
> of a spectacle, then the benefit would be outweighed by the detriment. So, I
> would only support a visually subtle solution if one were available.

Agreed, thus my suggestion B2 above:
B2) In generating the text of a picklist entry, prepend a context clue from the
next higher level(s) of the Navigator hierarchical tree, i.e., in a '|' (bar)
separated format "higher_context_clue | terminal_phrase_name"

Note that the bar-separator hierarchy presentation is already used in
Tools->Customize->Target drop box to show the first two levels of menu
hierarchy for context. This I am not proposing a new UI visual pattern, just
re-use of an existing pattern in yet another drop box context.

Regards.

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