[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 158069] Scroll through font selection listbox using arrow keys and preview change on document canvas

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158069

--- Comment #13 from Bob English <bobofenglish at zoho.com> ---
(In reply to Jean-Francois Nifenecker from comment #12)
> In the side bar, select the styles pane...
> 
> This is exactly what you're asking for, IMO.

No it's not at all what I want, that method involves even more steps, and the
view of the font in the display is too small, and can't be resized. I believe
the intended use for the styles pane is much finer control, with the intention
on also applying it to the style and anything already using it, not just a
single word, line of text... selection, and even saving the style for later
use, which you may have no need to do.

What I would like, and cannot see why others wouldn't rather have too:

1. Select text in the document; Doesn't have to be a whole paragraph, can be
more than one paragraph, and more than one style. 

2. Click in the font dropdown in the toolbar:  It's always there and out of the
way, and It's best use is for quick changes and instant results of very common
things one changes, not fine control and a plethora of options.

3. Scroll the mouse wheel or use the up/down arrow keys, and watch the font of
the selected text change in the document itself (the font names in the dropdown
do not need to be the selected font, but all the same as the rest of the
interface).  May I even suggest it to also suspend the graphical highlight of
the text until the choice is made, so you get the full effect of what it will
look like in context if and when applied.  Once applied the text Highlight in
the document is turned back on for reference and show it's still active to be
changed, and until the text is deselected.

4. Only on command should the dropdown lose focus.  The commands should be as
easy as clicking in any other control to focus it, or in the document window
where you want the cursor.  Pressing [Enter] also applies it and places the
cursor in the document window, just where it was before you changed the font.
[Tab] should indeed advance to the next control in the toolbar, because you are
already adjusting the font, and it's size and what not matter too, so it's a
good feature.

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