Bug 101062 - UI: Context menu of table of contents refers to index
Summary: UI: Context menu of table of contents refers to index
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
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5.2.0.0.beta2
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
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Reported: 2016-07-21 21:16 UTC by Stanislav Horacek
Modified: 2018-08-05 14:14 UTC (History)
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Description Stanislav Horacek 2016-07-21 21:16:13 UTC
1. Open a new text document.
2. Insert table of contents into it (Insert - Table of Contents and Index - Table of Contents, Index or Bibliograpyh - OK).
3. Right-click to the inserted table of contents.

You will see the commands "Update/Edit/Delete Index", even if they are related to the table of contents. Till to the 5.1 version, these commands were correctly named as "Update/Edit/Delete Index or Table of Contents".
Comment 1 Thomas Hackert 2016-07-24 15:25:06 UTC
Hello Stainislav, *,
I can confirm your bug with
OS: Debian Testing AMD64
LO Version: 5.2.0.3
Build-ID: 7dbd85f5a18cfeaf6801c594fc43a5edadc2df0c
CPU-Threads: 4; BS-Version: Linux 4.5; UI-Render: Standard; 
Gebietsschema: de-DE (de_DE.UTF-8)
(parallel installed, following the instructions from https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel/Linux)

In
LO: Version: 5.1.5.1
Build ID: 1:5.1.5~rc1-1
CPU Threads: 4; OS Version: Linux 4.5; UI Render: GL; 
Locale: de-DE (de_DE.UTF-8); Calc: group
(Debian's own version)

it is "Update Index or Table of Contents", "Edit..." and "Delete...", so it seems a regression to former versions ... :(
HTH
Thomas.
Comment 2 QA Administrators 2017-09-01 11:21:03 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 3 Stanislav Horacek 2017-09-05 18:51:12 UTC
Still reproducible in 5.3.1.
Comment 4 Timur 2018-08-01 17:03:13 UTC
Now it's more slick. But let's ask for an opinion. And find an explanation.
Comment 5 Heiko Tietze 2018-08-02 08:56:38 UTC
Don't remember the request nor find the patch but doesn't the change make sense to you? I mean a table of contents is a special index and the long string has no advantage for the user. Actually the text "Apply Foo _or_ Bar" makes me wonder if there are similar commands doing only one of the two options. So it's a clear WFM (and 2 years old anyway).
Comment 6 Stanislav Horacek 2018-08-05 14:14:18 UTC
The change probably makes sense in English as the word "index" means both special type of index and general term for indexes, but:
- it might not work in other languages, e.g. "index"-"rejstřík" in Czech cannot be used as general term (and this bugreport says that it is used incorrectly),
- using of ambiguous terms increases confusion of localizers, it would be much clearer if we have "index" and "real special index" (I don't know which word is proper for it).

Your note about preferring general terms over list of specific terms is interesting, but I can imagine cases where the list is useful for users (e.g. in searching for menu item names). In any case, the current state of index related items is really inconsistent - menu item or dialog title is in the long form.