Bug 170675 - Update Writer's user defined bullet config helper code
Summary: Update Writer's user defined bullet config helper code
Status: NEW
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Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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26.2.0.3 release
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Depends on: 169441
Blocks: Bullet-Number-Outline-Lists
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Reported: 2026-02-09 06:50 UTC by Aron Budea
Modified: 2026-02-09 06:50 UTC (History)
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Description Aron Budea 2026-02-09 06:50:46 UTC 
There was some old Writer code for user bullet configuration:
https://github.com/LibreOffice/core/blob/master/sw/source/core/doc/number.cxx

See SwDefBulletConfig. The config path used was: Office.Writer/Numbering/DefaultBulletList

This config has been superseded, see details in bug 169441, the config paths (with slightly different notation) for the symbols and corresponding fonts are:
- officecfg::Office::Common::BulletsNumbering::DefaultListBullets
- officecfg::Office::Common::BulletsNumbering::DefaultListBulletsFonts

The old SwDefBulletConfig is still used in some places in the code, these are all the references:
sw/inc/numrule.hxx:290:    bool IsDefBulletFontUserDefined();
sw/source/core/doc/number.cxx:1488:    bool IsDefBulletFontUserDefined()
sw/source/core/edit/autofmt.cxx:1562:                        if ( numfunc::IsDefBulletFontUserDefined() )
sw/source/filter/html/htmlnumreader.cxx:96:            if ( numfunc::IsDefBulletFontUserDefined() )
sw/source/filter/html/htmlnumreader.cxx:378:                        if ( numfunc::IsDefBulletFontUserDefined() )
sw/source/filter/html/htmlnumreader.cxx:491:        if ( numfunc::IsDefBulletFontUserDefined() )
sw/source/filter/md/swmd.cxx:337:            if (numfunc::IsDefBulletFontUserDefined())
sw/source/filter/md/swmd.cxx:424:                        if (numfunc::IsDefBulletFontUserDefined())
sw/source/filter/md/swmd.cxx:515:        if (numfunc::IsDefBulletFontUserDefined())
sw/source/uibase/wrtsh/wrtsh1.cxx:1657:                    if ( numfunc::IsDefBulletFontUserDefined() )

The configs should be unified, perhaps the old config class should be updated to encompass the new config.
If there's interest to have this outside of Writer as well, then it could be moved to a more generic place.

The structure of the old config was different:
- there was a single config for the font, font weight and italic setting for all configured bullets,
- the list items could be specified by the numeric IDs of the characters, and there was no wrap-around like with the new config (ie. if you specify only the first few levels, now they'll repeat on subsequent levels).
It also wasn't working until this commit since 25.8.5: b0510011e9857f418c02b838d9fdb5769a912c70.