[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Libreoffice] [PATCH] modify default behaviour of the format paintbrush

[Maxime de Roucy]

Hello,

I am writing this mail trying to prevent this thread from dying…

So, what do you think about changing the default behavior of the format
paintbrush ?

Regards

Maxime de Roucy

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Le lundi 19 mars 2012 à 12:15 +0100, Maxime de Roucy a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> > Is this change based on the idea, that people who use the paintbrush are 
> > not that much looking at styles, and thus that copying those styles 
> > might do more harm then good for them?
> I was showing a modification I made to the format paintbrush in a
> preview patch to a co-worker who work with LO but don't know it that
> much. And he was very surprised that the tool change the format of the
> whole paragraph.
> 
> For him, by default the format paintbrush should just change the
> selected characters (whether using named or auto-style format).
> 
> That's why I thought of changing the default behaviour.
> 
> Currently :
> By default it past the characters and paragraphs formatting ;
> if Ctrl is hold, it only past the character formatting ;
> if Ctrl and Shift are hold, it only past the paragraph formatting.
> 
> With the patch :
> By default it only past the characters formatting ;
> if Ctrl is hold, it past the characters and paragraphs formatting ;
> if Ctrl and Shift are hold, it only past the paragraph formatting.
> 
> Regards
> 
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