Bug 163262 - Extend the Spotlight feature to highlight list styles, custom list styles
Summary: Extend the Spotlight feature to highlight list styles, custom list styles
Status: NEEDINFO
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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: 160627 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: Sidebar-Styles
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Reported: 2024-10-02 16:34 UTC by Gabor Kelemen (allotropia)
Modified: 2024-11-01 21:36 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Example file from Writer to show list styles applied (57.40 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2024-10-02 16:34 UTC, Gabor Kelemen (allotropia)
Details
List styles without Spotlight checkbox (240.01 KB, image/png)
2024-10-02 16:42 UTC, Gabor Kelemen (allotropia)
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two lists in Default PS, two different LS (97.75 KB, image/png)
2024-10-17 12:23 UTC, V Stuart Foote
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Description Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 2024-10-02 16:34:00 UTC
Created attachment 196849 [details]
Example file from Writer to show list styles applied

Currently the Spotlight highlights only paragraph and character styles, but it would be useful to apply it on List styles as well.

1. Open attached document
2. Go to the Styles sidebar, then to the List Styles category
3. Scroll through the document with the Down arrow to see there are different list styles applied to the text, but there is no Spotlight checkbox to highlight these in the document.
Comment 1 Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 2024-10-02 16:42:54 UTC
Created attachment 196850 [details]
List styles without Spotlight checkbox
Comment 2 V Stuart Foote 2024-10-02 18:45:05 UTC
Reasonable, +1
Comment 3 Heiko Tietze 2024-10-17 10:51:08 UTC
I don't think so. List is an attribute to the paragraph and either applied via assigned list style or per DF. and both are shown properly in the spotlight.
Comment 4 V Stuart Foote 2024-10-17 12:23:42 UTC
Created attachment 197112 [details]
two lists in Default PS, two different LS

(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #3)
> I don't think so. List is an attribute to the paragraph and either applied
> via assigned list style or per DF. and both are shown properly in the
> spotlight.

Are they? The PS may be default, but with different List styles applied still presented with the *same* symbology (a hash overlay) in the Spotlight.  

With Spotlight unable to distinguish between PS with Liststyle 1 and PS with Liststyle 2--just that some other style is applied over the default.
Comment 5 Eyal Rozenberg 2024-10-22 13:40:07 UTC
(In reply to Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) from comment #0)
> the Spotlight ... it would be useful to apply it on List styles as well.

Why? What's the use case? This is not a trivial tweak, it would require some work I imagine.

(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #3)
> I don't think so. List is an attribute to the paragraph

So are Character proprties.

> and either applied via assigned list style or per DF.

Ditto.

My suggestion: NEEDINFO to get a use case for Gabor.
Comment 6 Cor Nouws 2024-10-22 18:46:27 UTC
(custom) list styles are an important element in text documents; this good to support the use/maintenance better with extending the possibilities of Spotlight.
Comment 7 Heiko Tietze 2024-10-23 08:31:50 UTC
(In reply to Cor Nouws from comment #6)
> (custom) list styles are an important element in text documents...
How do you imagine to use the spotlight feature, ie. when exactly, in which combination, and for what purpose?
Comment 8 Heiko Tietze 2024-10-24 08:46:59 UTC
We discussed the topic in the design meeting. 

To spotlight a list style clashes with the current distinction of PS/CS/DF. If a LS is applied to a paragraph you get the information and should investigate the details via style inspector. This is likely a WF, but keeping NI in case some aspect is missing.
Comment 9 V Stuart Foote 2024-11-01 21:36:00 UTC
*** Bug 160627 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***