Currently, the LO options dialog actually has many settings which are _document-level_. That is bug 144814. While we're waiting for this situation to change, it seems the Help doesn't tell us which settings are persistent in the app (or module), and which are persisted in the document. For example: "Default languages" is persisted in the current document (see bug ), but that's not mentioned in the relevant Help page: ${LIBREOFFICE_DIR}/help/en-US/text/shared/optionen/01140000.html?System=UNIX&DbPAR=WRITER&HID=cui/ui/optlanguagespage/OptLanguagesPage#bm_id7035738 (this is with a recent LO 7.5 build.)
Thanks Eyal. Apart from the default languages, do you have a shortlist of pressing ones we could focus on for this bug? Just trying to have something specific so we can actually mark it as fixed one day.
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #0) > For example: "Default languages" is persisted in the current document (see > bug ) I meant bug 151918, sorry :-) (In reply to Stéphane Guillou (stragu) from comment #1) > Apart from the default languages, do you have a shortlist of pressing ones > we could focus on for this bug? No, because I literally can't tell when this happens! I've always assumed no LO options apply to an already-created document, and was recently surprised to notice that is not the case...
Eyal, I would like to work on this bug. Can you help me to tell how you imagine the text in the final version? https://help.libreoffice.org/26.8/en-US/text/shared/optionen/01140000.html?System=UNIX&DbPAR=WRITER&HID=cui/ui/optlanguagespage/OptLanguagesPage#bm_id7035738
(In reply to BogdanB from comment #3) So, I'll first say that the link you posted is to the help page for Tools - Options - Languages and Locales - General and this bug is more general. I gave the default language being persisted as an example. For the example I gave - which isn't the best one actually - I'm not sure what the text would be exactly, but it has to say that the setting for default languages which you make here will be saved in every (?) document you create (well, not in plain text of course but most document types I would think). It may or may not be a good idea to explain _where_ in the document it's going to be saved. In FODT, right now, it's saved in some of the default styles (graphic and paragraph style families). But there are all the other settings - from whether you're allowed to cancel print jobs, to your current database data source. The help pages which mention any of those million settings should say "This gets saved along with your document" about each of them. There are about 150 config-item's and possibly more things you can set with Tools|Options. Of course, the _right_ thing to do - IMNSHO - would be to separate the app-level and doc-level settings, and not save a zillion app settings in the document, but that would be out of scope for this bug.