[Bug 167949] Styles: add "Custom and Applied Styles" option

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167949

--- Comment #4 from DM <miscellaneous at paintdrawer.co.uk> ---
So basically unlike most of the items in All Styles, Custom styles are ones you
actually plan to apply or are likely to apply, so you want them listed in one
single list with the applieds, and you can simply have a narrow edge column
indicating by a symbol whether each style in that list is actually applied or
not.
For that matter for the same reason there's separate buttons for paragraph and
character styles, and you currently have to constantly hop around between those
two. A list combining Custom and Applied should therefore also have the
different types together in a single unified list, and you can have a narrow
edge column indicating style type.
The present situation of constantly having to switch types and drop the style
list to switch between Applied and Custom styles has little benefit except
where there are a very large number of styles, but is both extremely
inefficient and given it's something that doesn't have to be that way also very
irritating. If you are working on a lot of small documents there is no end to
this switching you have to do just to do very basic formatting.
Even just to apply "No character style" can take five clicks: change to
character style, pull up style group selector, choose applied style,
double-click "No character style" - it's far too much.
When you create a new style to use, it just disappears and can't be used so you
have to click the style group selector, custom style, then double-click the
style you created just in order then to apply it - again quite unnecessary.
By contrast having a combined list choice that can be left open at the side for
clicking on and using with no switching about is much more practical.

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