Bug 108206 - Paragraph drop down menu control should display "Default Style" or "Text Body" by default
Summary: Paragraph drop down menu control should display "Default Style" or "Text Body...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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6.0.0.0.alpha0+
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Blocks: Writer-Styles-Paragraph-Combobox
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Reported: 2017-05-28 20:47 UTC by Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired)
Modified: 2017-06-05 19:47 UTC (History)
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Description Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired) 2017-05-28 20:47:22 UTC
If the intent of 'Text Body' is that it should be used by default for paragraphs, then we shouldnt show 'Default Style' in the paragraph drop down menu control and we should change the default template to have it set to 'Text Body'.

Alternatively, we should remove 'Text Body' from the drop down menu as it is identical to 'Default Text' except for 0.1" below paragraph spacing and to users this would be redundant.
Comment 1 Cor Nouws 2017-05-29 19:39:20 UTC
Interesting ideas.
Related to consider: Next style in Headings is Text Body.

Changing the default template looks OK to me.
Removing Default from the drop-down might panic people, whom don't know what to do.. or?
Comment 2 Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired) 2017-05-29 23:59:26 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 47295 ***
Comment 3 Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired) 2017-05-30 00:05:19 UTC
Not duplicate, as this one is about the drop down and not the template. :D
Comment 4 Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired) 2017-06-05 19:47:00 UTC
(In reply to Cor Nouws from comment #1)
> Interesting ideas.
> Related to consider: Next style in Headings is Text Body.

In that scenario i guess 'Text Body' has to stay, as it will appear in the list quite early in the creation of a document.

> Changing the default template looks OK to me.
> Removing Default from the drop-down might panic people, whom don't know what
> to do.. or?

With so many documents already created with 'Default' (aka Standard) and when importing Word documents that default to use 'Normal' and that being mapped to 'Default', its highly unlikely it wont always appear in the list as well.

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/writerfilter/source/dmapper/StyleSheetTable.cxx#n1312