Bug 43515 - [Task] RESET / BACK button text and function interchanged.
Summary: [Task] RESET / BACK button text and function interchanged.
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
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3.4.4 release
Hardware: Other All
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Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: needsUXEval
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Blocks: Dialog 43516
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Reported: 2011-12-04 07:59 UTC by Rainer Bielefeld Retired
Modified: 2021-03-01 09:23 UTC (History)
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Description Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2011-12-04 07:59:20 UTC
Definition you find here: <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39452#c3>

In some dialogs The button has the useful function, but wrong text. for these cases please simply add a comment where the the button can be found.

If you believe that the function is not convenient please file a new bug report and list it here as "Depends on" with a copy of the bug's Summary line.

Please avoid discussion here, that only will complicate bug fixing.


@András:
Please feel free to reassign (or reset Assignee to default) if it’s not your area or if provided information is not sufficient. Please set Status to ASSIGNED if you accept this Bug.
Comment 1 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2011-12-04 08:09:24 UTC
Writer menu 'Format -> Character': Button shows "Reset" but function is "Back", Text has to be corrected.
Comment 2 Andras Timar 2011-12-18 14:30:00 UTC
It would not be a trivial fix, because this "Reset" button is shared between many dialogs, and it may mean "reset" at some places and "back" in other places.
Comment 3 Thomas Lendo 2017-05-20 20:16:57 UTC
Closing this bug because of no activity since 2011.

If this is incorrect or there are new bugs that depend on this one, please reopen it again.
Comment 4 Buovjaga 2017-05-21 17:52:51 UTC
(In reply to Thomas Lendo from comment #3)
> Closing this bug because of no activity since 2011.
> 
> If this is incorrect or there are new bugs that depend on this one, please
> reopen it again.

Let's keep as NEW as this was still seen as something worthwhile to fix and the situation has not changed.
Comment 5 QA Administrators 2018-07-27 02:42:08 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 6 sdc.blanco 2020-01-18 22:35:41 UTC
Has the meaning of "Back" (as used here and in bug #39452, comment 3) been shifted over to "Reset"?  It appears so.  Maybe this bug must be evaluated in relation to contemporary discussions (e.g., bug #128469) where "Back" is not mentioned at all.
Comment 7 sdc.blanco 2021-02-27 17:10:38 UTC
The link in comment 0 gives an interesting historical insight into the meaning of "Back" and "Reset".

What is currently called "Reset" in LO used to be called "Back"
And what is currently called "Standard" (on the way to "Set to Parent") used to be called "Reset".

Probably this bug 43515 should be closed, because it is being addressed (at least in part) in bug 128469, and because I assume that "Back" is not going to come back, but I do not know the appropriate "resolution" to give, and maybe there needs to be a UXEval comment about "Back".
Comment 8 Heiko Tietze 2021-03-01 09:23:10 UTC
Don't see an improvement in renaming the more or less known Rest button into Back. Both can be misleading but to me Back is even more unclear.

(In reply to sdc.blanco from comment #7)
> Probably this bug 43515 should be closed...

Agreed