Page sidebar in Writer has "Same Content" dropdown, with the following elements: "All Pages"; "First Page"; "Left and Right Pages"; "First, Left and Right Pages". These are expected to mean that e.g. "First Page" is first page is *different*. But how could one possibly read "Same Content: First Page" as "Different content on first page"?! Or how could one read "Same Content: First, Left and Right Pages", and see the difference with "Same Content: All" - and again, understand that the former means "different content on the listed categories"? The wording of the control needs to be changed. Simple proposal: change "Same Content" to "Different Content", and "All" to "None". But possibly better not try to over-simplify the UI (that dreaded "by all means, try to squeeze everything into one line!!!") and just make a checkbox group with possibility to choose what has own content.
I confirm, that it the current wording is confusing. But every solution should be in line with header dialog there are only two options with checkboxes: Same content left and right and same content first page. For me those checkboxes are easy to understand. So I go with Mike's propsal to use checkboxes also in the sidebar. As the header dialog shows two checkboxes are enough. Additional information: It seems to me, that - if you change setting in the header dialog, there is no change in the page sidebar (or perhaps I don't understand settings of the sidebar).
How about "Position: [Same on all pages][First page different][Left/Right different][First, left/right different]". But actually the implementation per checkbox as in the page dialog is more straightforward and easier to understand.
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #2) > How about "Position: If at all, then not "Position", but "Content" (it's not about positions of the header/footer, but its content)
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #2) > But actually the implementation > per checkbox as in the page dialog is more straightforward and easier to > understand. I agree. It shouldn't be different from page dialog, because that's a potential source of confusion. And of course - as Mike already remarked - "context" is correct wording.
So let's do it in the same way as on the page dialog.