Bug 148226

Summary: Add Edit style buttons in Footnotes dialog
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Leandro Martín Drudi <sanipachenko>
Component: WriterAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: enhancement CC: dgp-mail, heiko.tietze, raykowj, sanipachenko, sdc.blanco
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Crash report or crash signature: Regression By:
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Bug Blocks: 108568    
Attachments: Simulation of result and example for my enhancement suggestion
Organizer tab page edit style image buttons

Description Leandro Martín Drudi 2022-03-28 00:51:12 UTC 
Description:
[ES]
Editar los estilos que dan formato a las Notas al pie de página y/o Notas al final de página se torna bastante complicado porque hay que entrar a buscar su nombre en el cuadro de diálogo para editar sus características (en el menú Herramientas) y luego localizar el estilo.
Simplificaría bastante personalizar su formato solo añadiendo botones para editar el estilo que se escoja desde este cuadro de diálogo (tal como permiten editar un estilo secundario desde el propio cuadro de diálogo de edición de un estilo).

[EN]
Editing the styles that format the Footnotes and/or Endnotes becomes quite complicated because you have to enter their name in the dialog box to edit their characteristics (in the Tools menu) and then find the style.
It would make it quite simple to customize its format just by adding buttons to edit the style chosen from this dialog (just as they allow you to edit a secondary style from the style's edit dialog itself).

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Clic on Tools menu.
2. Clic on Footnotes and Endnotes option.
3. See style name
4. Close dialog.
5. Locate the style in the list of styles in the sidebar.
6. Right click on the target style.
7. Click Edit.
8. Change the features.
9. Confirm changes.

Actual Results:
Edit style for footnote or endnotes.

Expected Results:
Reduce to:
1. Clic on Tools menu.
2. Clic on Footnotes and Endnotes option.
3. See style objetive style.
4. Click Edit stle button.
5. Change the features.
6. Confirm changes.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes



Additional Info:
Reducing the clicks or the number of steps to do something increases the user's productivity and allows them to have a better feeling about the program they are using.
Comment 1 Leandro Martín Drudi 2022-03-28 00:53:47 UTC 
Created attachment 179154 [details]
Simulation of result and example for my enhancement suggestion

In this simulation made in a graphic editor you can see how the action is simplified to a few clicks
Comment 2 Dieter 2022-04-12 06:08:55 UTC 
I support this enhancement request.

cc: Design-Team for further input and decision.
Comment 3 Heiko Tietze 2022-04-12 10:23:27 UTC 
Sounds reasonable. Instead of textual buttons I'd use icons-only (with tooltips of course) to diminish the impression of a button wall. 

Hope users wont become greedy and ask for such button at the numbering ;-).
Comment 4 Jim Raykowski 2022-04-29 20:37:28 UTC 
Created attachment 179848 [details]
Organizer tab page edit style image buttons

Another place image buttons could be used instead of 'Edit Style' text labeled buttons is the styles organizer tab page. This only requires removing the text for the existing buttons and adding an image, perhaps 'cmd/sc_editstyle.png', in the sfx2/uiconfig/ui/managestylepage.ui file. Similar can be done to add edit style image buttons to sw/uiconfig/swriter/ui/endnotepage.ui and sw/uiconfig/swriter/ui/footnotepage.ui and then hook up functionality of these in sw/source/ui/misc/impfnote.hxx and sw/source/ui/misc/docfnote.cxx
Comment 5 Heiko Tietze 2022-05-02 07:40:50 UTC 
(In reply to Jim Raykowski from comment #4)
> Another place image buttons could be used instead of 'Edit Style' text
> labeled buttons is the styles organizer tab page.

But this dialog has enough space and the buttons do not look unbalanced. Labels have the benefit that you don't need to trust in icons (and tooltips) and you get mnemonics.