When user wants to duplicate (copy) an existing object (like an image, drawing in writer or anywhere else etc.), the usual workflow is: 1) Select original object 2) Pres ctrl+c (or select Copy from menu) 3) Pres crtl+v (or select Paste) But because the original object is still selected after the step 2, it's in-place overwritten with its new copy in step 3. Moreover, the user don't event recognize that the original object was replaced with its copy, an may think the copying don't even work. In my opinion, LO should detect that user is pasting the same object right after it was copied, and in that case de-select the original object (so it won't be replaced) and paste the new copy in a little distance from the original object (so user seem the action that just happened).
Enhancement request.
Thanks Ondrej, I believe this is important to improve usability. I've changed the title (to make it more clear).
How about just changing the behavior to paste an object without replacing the selected object, as most other editors* do? (Text behavior is different, as there it's standard to replace the selected text with pasted text.) * Tested Microsoft Word 2007, iWork Pages, Google Drive, Calligra Words, and Inkscape.
see discussion and progression in 55582 pls :) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 55582 ***