[Bug 161934] "Top 10" item in Autofilter filter drop-down is ambiguous

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161934

--- Comment #4 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> ---
(In reply to ady from comment #3)
> > * "The 10 rows with the highest value"
> 
> I sincerely ask... How/why would that be the meaning?

Because it says "Top 10". Is can be ten values, or ten rows.

> This is within the
> context of AutoFilter, right? When you select one (or several) items, is the
> expected behavior clear? Are the specific row numbers in such case relevant?

They aren't, in this interpretation. They're relevant according to the third
possible interpretation.

> 
> > * "All rows with any of the 10 highest values"
> 
> Well, yes. Just by trying it once, users should be able to understand the
> result quite immediately, don't they?

No:

* Because it might be the case that the top 10 highest values have one row each
- and then, the two most reasonable interpretations happen to coincide.
* Because next time they use this filtering they might not remember exactly how
the confusion was cleared up last time.

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