[Bug 167484] When no text is selected, font controls should reflect the chosen keyboard layout

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167484

--- Comment #6 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> ---
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #3)
> But my expectation would be that if something is implemented, rather than
> the edit cursor as now, a change in keyboard needs to have a
> scope --mid-word/span would not be helpful.

Why not? Why would it matter? If we're choosing the language group by what's
about to be typed rather than what's already typed? Also - would we not want
the logic for choosing what to show to be relatively simple with a minimum
number of cases?

> And probably don't want a language change on active keyboard to assert
> against entire paragraphs, as that would make it impossible to work polyglot
> for a single paragraph.

assert... ?

Can you describe the scenarios which you find problematic with my suggestion?

More specifically - suppose I have a sequence of characters which are strongly
RTL-CTL. Now, in the middle of that sequence, I change the keyboard layout to
French. My ask here is to have the formatting toolbar show me the French
typeface, font size, etc. Do you think this is problematic?

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