Bug 160167 - Bullets and Numbering dialog: Selection label
Summary: Bullets and Numbering dialog: Selection label
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
24.2.1.2 release
Hardware: All All
: medium trivial
Assignee: Heiko Tietze
URL:
Whiteboard: target:24.8.0
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Blocks: Bullets-Numbering-Dialog
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Reported: 2024-03-12 13:01 UTC by pedro.silva
Modified: 2024-03-15 15:13 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description pedro.silva 2024-03-12 13:01:41 UTC
Description:
In Writer (but the same occurs in draw) please access bullets dropdown > "More Bullets…", a dialog (Bullets and Numbering) opens. The first 4 tabs ("Unordered", "Ordered", "Outline", "Image") have a label: "Selection" up top. 

I propose a discussion about this.

Disclaimer: Feel free to close it this if was already discussed or if it was reported and closed.

Personally I would either:
- Replaced it with something more in line with the used standard in other dialogs: "Options". 
- Or, and because we are in presence of a dialog's content that has only options: remove the label (unless, of course, if we depend on that for accessibility reasons).

Why: Someone asked me what was the "Selection" text and I had difficulties to try to understand and thus explain its purpose or what it is. Later and upon looking it's a label that refers to the displayed options bellow.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. bullets dropdown > "More Bullets…"

Actual Results:
User's confusion

Expected Results:
Expected to have no label or a better one


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
none
Comment 1 DuyN 2024-03-12 14:20:27 UTC
Thank you for reporting the bug. I can confirm that the bug is present in:

Version: 24.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 3ba85b7786663da4f2de1a3c2fe7ee9a27657293
CPU threads: 16; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 22631; UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

I agree that the label "Selection" in the "Bullets and Numbering" dialog might not intuitively convey its purpose to users, leading to potential confusion.
Comment 2 Heiko Tietze 2024-03-13 08:45:12 UTC
Yes, let's remove this label.
Comment 3 Commit Notification 2024-03-15 15:13:41 UTC
Heiko Tietze committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/aacce8abe239ad679f5e9f9ce9bf2d27fb046d5d

Resolves tdf#160167 - Remove pointless frames in bullet & numbering dialog

It will be available in 24.8.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.