[Bug 159299] Usability: Menu item "View/Field Names" and causing confusion, suggest removing entry and keyboard shortcut

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159299

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

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--- Comment #6 from Heiko Tietze <heiko.tietze at documentfoundation.org> ---
(In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #3)
> Exactly to inspect, which field if for what
Not buying this use case. It's rather a debug functionality.

> The same Ask site has several cases, where the advise was to *enable* the
> "Field Names" feature, e.g. to diagnose a problem.
Wouldn't Tools > Options be sufficient in those cases?

(In reply to jan d from comment #5)
> - Remove the keyboard shortcut
> - Rename to "Field IDs"
+1

> - a simple modal of "this activates… do you want to proceed?" with an option
> of "don't ask me again", so experts would need to activate it once.
-0.5 (too clumsy for my taste)

> - Show a floating mode indicator...
Do you have some kind of tooltip in mind, eg on hover while a modifier key is
pressed, that shows the ID instead of the usual explanation? What do you think,
Mike?

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