Duplicate .uno commands

[Kaganski Mike]

Hi Miklos,

Thanks for your comments!

On 2020-01-03 11:28, Miklos Vajna wrote:
>> The problem with this, besides duplication itself (including e.g.
>> drawing icons), is that both of them appear in customization dialog, and
>> that's confusing.
> 
> You can avoid duplicated icons via icon-themes/.../links.txt.

My point about duplication and icons was duplicated effort for creating 
them - which has already happened, as seen in this case; not how 
technically to make two commands to point to the same icon (which is 
easy - once you *know* that they are duplicates).

> 
>> Having two elements in customization dialog with same
>> name, but different operation, as often happening, is already bad enough
>> (user has to experiment to find the one that is needed; that was handled
>> partially in tdf#108458); but having two totally identical elements is
>> too much IMO. Users would struggle to find the difference; and anyway
>> assume they just didn't find the scenario where they act differently.
> 
> Can't we label the deprecated one as "... (deprecated)"?

Do you mean changing label of one? I'd say it's not ideal: the idea 
behind deprecation will not be obvious; in the presence of many 
non-duplicating commands with identical names, these two would still 
raise questions like "is this one deprecated because it's a duplicate of 
*that other one*, or *of another unknown*, or because of other reason?", 
which would still not address the problem. I hoped there's an existing 
way to mark a command as "hidden from Customization dialog" :-)

-- 
Best regards,
Mike Kaganski