Bug 159020 - UI: Text language context menu from status bar is not self-explaining
Summary: UI: Text language context menu from status bar is not self-explaining
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 103036
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
24.8.0.0 alpha0+
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Reported: 2024-01-04 14:15 UTC by Telesto
Modified: 2024-01-04 15:45 UTC (History)
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2024-01-04 14:15 UTC, Telesto
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Description Telesto 2024-01-04 14:15:19 UTC
Description:
Text language context menu from status bar is not really self-explaining

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Writer (empty document)
2. Right/Left click on Document language shown at the bottom (screenshot
3. There is 'quick list' listing number of languages + more... category.
4. The More.. button which opens the Character Dialog (same as Format -> Character)
5. Select some different language from the 'quick  list' It will set Paragraph Direct Format -> Char Locale
6. There is also a "Set Language for Paragraph". The submenu will list a number of languages + more
7. Click the more button from the submenu. Character Dialog opens (seems the same as Format -> Character)



Actual Results:
1) The dialogs, pointing to the same dialog is terrible confusing: what is the difference? How do those relate to each other. I can't make any sense of it

2) I miss the ability to change the Paragraph Default Style language in the status bar (that's what I'm often inclined to do; I want to change the Paragraph Default Style because I'm writing a document in English. I'm actually messing with Char Locales.

Expected Results:
More self-explaining workflow


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
Version: 24.2.0.0.alpha1+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: a9ad36ae46ff76c0d59b0d170314fdd3a9ee5d35
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 6.3 Build 9600; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: nl-NL (nl_NL); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded
Comment 1 Telesto 2024-01-04 14:15:53 UTC
Created attachment 191762 [details]
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Comment 2 Heiko Tietze 2024-01-04 14:56:00 UTC
This has for sure duplicates. Please check bug 136463, bug 103036, bug 138170, and the META tickets.
Comment 3 Telesto 2024-01-04 15:45:38 UTC
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #2)
> This has for sure duplicates. Please check bug 136463, bug 103036, bug
> 138170, and the META tickets.

You're right. I should use search more often :-) It's reported left and right: closed as NAB/WF bug 81797 or bug 96988. Today it's dumped into bug 103036 which feels like a container bug

The bug title containing very broad scope: 'rework document language Setting'. Whereas the bug 103036 comment 0 being about something very specific stuff. The duplicates go in all sort of directions (sub)issues. Bug 103036 comment 6 mentions the status bar.

I would personally prefer a nice clean bug summarizing the issues and some UI/ workflow proposal. Maybe even separated it into subtopics bundled by a metabug. Instead of all aspects being squeezed into a single bug report.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 103036 ***