Description: you have inserted a document through Insert / Section / link... and want to remove it... now, hitting the remove button doesn't do what the button says... doesn't remove it, but instead converts it into normal text... this is, doubtlessly, a major bias... imagine your text... a book of some 150 pages.. of which 25 pages are embedded using a file, another document (you'll choose to work on small documents for various reasons... one of them being that your netbook is not that powerful to offer a smooth operation eve at the document length over 100 pages OR because you like to edit sections separately... say, there are several contributing authors, and several short stories or essays, whatever, the point being: different stories, different editing sessions) now, you want to remove a section? you simply can't and I'm certain that most users / writers / editors will hit "remove"... cause they'll believe they know what remove means in that context :) and then... they'll have 25 pages of text there... with no borders... and no option to remove, other than making a 25 pages long "select" and hitting delete... which, as a risky thing, is not the favorite of any editor.. ......... this is why a remove section should be there.. and a convert to normal text, or "adopt" as normal text, whatever the name, only it should be human readable :) Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert -> Section / as link 2. try to remove it 3. Actual Results: you can't Expected Results: you should be able to press "remove", and the section should be removed Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: Version: 6.2.8.2 Build ID: 1:6.2.8~rc2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 CPU threads: 2; OS: Linux 4.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; Locale: hu-HU (hu_HU.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US Calc: threaded
I confirm that behavior in Version: 7.0.0.0.beta1+ (x64) Build ID: c46a704943be830d603ba0421a329ccb58b8b209 Потоков ЦП: 4; ОС: Windows 10.0 Build 18362; Отрисовка ИП: Skia/растр; VCL: win Locale: ru-RU (ru_RU); ИП: ru-RU Calc: threaded but I don't know it's a bug or not. UX team, what do you think about it? Should button "Remove" remove only section but don't delete a text from section as it's now? Or "Remove" button should delete a section with all its content?
I would like the underlying data to be removed when I ask for section removal. I guess this is just a question of vocabulary/language. Removing a section is just that: removing
(In reply to Jean-Francois Nifenecker from comment #2) > I would like the underlying data to be removed when I ask for section > removal. > > I guess this is just a question of vocabulary/language. Removing a section > is just that: removing Gosh, I hit a button with a bad keystroke... I guess this is just a question of vocabulary/language. Removing a section is just that: removing a section, NOT the data. Perhaps another option is due: removing a section AND its data? Otherwise, I strongly oppose to data loss the OP asks for without the user being aware of it.
How about Remove (delete; to be introduced) and Merge (current remove)?
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #4) > How about Remove (delete; to be introduced) and Merge (current remove)? this would be great... "merge" is much better than "convert to normal text", to start with... and "delete" is also great, however, "remove" would be better in my opinion... (I'll explain in my next comment)
(In reply to Jean-Francois Nifenecker from comment #3) > (In reply to Jean-Francois Nifenecker from comment #2) > > I would like the underlying data to be removed when I ask for section > > removal. > > > > I guess this is just a question of vocabulary/language. Removing a section > > is just that: removing > > Gosh, I hit a button with a bad keystroke... > > I guess this is just a question of vocabulary/language. Removing a section > is just that: removing a section, NOT the data. > Perhaps another option is due: removing a section AND its data? > > Otherwise, I strongly oppose to data loss the OP asks for without the user > being aware of it. hi, I believe it is not about vocabulary, but operation... I mean, there is something the user wants to do, she or he looks for an operation which a functionality will perform... now, when inserting a section by LINKING a document... what rises as a need in the user's head is to get what has been placed there OFF... bear in mind that it is inserted by LINKING, so, removing will not suggest the deletion of the original document in any circumstance to satisfy our linguistic ambitions :) when we insert a section, two things happen in a sequence... #1 a section is being created #2 a document is being linked "into" that section ... so when we say remove, to think of removing the inserted text comes naturally :) REMOVE / DELETE / UNLINK are synonyms... as we know when "delete" is used in this context as a title of the "button", one might think of the deletion of a text... however, that would be stupid on that user's part, cause the text is LINKED into the document... she or he linked it... not to mention leaving the "protect" checkbox checked, too... moreover, today's computers use recycle bins, so deleting something is not as big a thing as it is in a Linux environment, when "rem" will delete stuff for good :) anyway, whoever thinks that removing a link will cause deleting what's been linked, is just overanxious... but will learn fast PS: my other argument would be that a section means a container and its content... when someone sees a section and a button next to it: "remove" she or he will very intuitively think that pressing that button will make that section disappear.. it is not linguistics, it is logic, that of the workflow... the other option, which the user would expect, could be: "remove linking only" ("merge" linked text into the document) (merge sounds very good! part of it because "merge" is a verb which computer users in general are pretty familiar with) PS 2: another argument could be that one sees a paragraph... and there is a button next to it "remove"... what the user will expect to happen in the case of hitting that button is that the text disappears... NOT that the text becomes merged to the previous and following paragraphs... PS 3: since the document is linked, the chances that any user will think that removing the section will delete the linked document, I'd expect to be less than 1% sorry for the length
So let's change the current "Remove" into "Merge" and add a real "Remove" with a tooltip "Remove the linked document here but keep the original file untouched", or the like.
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