Bug 169441 - Decouple bullet library items from default levels
Summary: Decouple bullet library items from default levels
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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26.2.0.0 alpha0+ master
Hardware: All All
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Keywords: bibisected, bisected, regression
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Blocks: Bullet-Number-Outline-Lists
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Reported: 2025-11-14 16:11 UTC by Aron Budea
Modified: 2025-11-14 16:11 UTC (History)
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Description Aron Budea 2025-11-14 16:11:39 UTC
Seeing the results from bug 166229, its fix and the change in bug 168292, I have the following concerns:
1. Big change to the default view and logic, while users tend to not like sudden, big changes to basic functionality.

2. The original logic repeating 3 levels has changed to unique ones. As far as I can see, 3 levels repeating by default is fairly standard in office applications, that way it's already easy to distinguish between levels even in multilevel lists.

3. The new bullet sizes are disproportionally large compared to the text, which takes the focus away from the content. Based on bug 108697 and duplicates I can see why some of those are preferred in specific cases, but that doesn't mean they should replace the default ones.


What started this whole series of changes is that due to the commit below in bug 108697, while it made the bullets configurable, now the bullet library is directly tied to the default levels, which shouldn't be the case.

I'd add a separate list config that sets the default bullets (+ corresponding font), it starts with the 3 original ones, and the list repeats on further levels. Then the default bullets are still configurable as intended.

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/f944648e0f5d52605a267ed50bba4bfc035aecc6
author		Samuel Mehrbrodt <samuel.mehrbrodt@allotropia.de>	Thu Feb 22 11:55:30 2024 +0100
committer	Samuel Mehrbrodt <samuel.mehrbrodt@allotropia.de>	Mon Feb 26 13:26:20 2024 +0100

tdf#108697 Allow modifying default bullet selection