format, paragraph, alignment tab options sequence is now - left - right - center - justified and they are arranged vertically. Vertical arrangement is unintuitive, beacause these options refer to _horizontal_ alignment. Every time I must set this option I must _think_ what I have to select. I think it would be far better arranging them horizontally, and in this order: - left - center - right The justified option should be separate, in a new line. Besides that, a little icon for every option like those in the toolbar would make all the stuff far better again.
UX- team, what do you think about this old enhancement?
The options now list Left/Top, and Right/Bottom to cover special conditions. In those cases the argument doesn't count anymore. Plus, Horizontally arranged controls fail in most cases due to localization and inconsistent design. So let's keep it as it is.
Well, at least, the vertical order could be - left - center - right (a bit of spacing) - justified which is surely better than - left - right - center - justified Why not trying - left - center - right (a bit of spacing) - justified
(In reply to Paolo Benvenuto from comment #3) > Well, at least, the vertical order could be > > - left > - center > - right > (a bit of spacing) > - justified Ideally lists are sorted by the importance of items. That's why Left/Top is on top followed by Right/Bottom (for languages written in the opposite direction). But I can live with the new order too. Other Opinions? > Why not trying > > - left > - center > - right > (a bit of spacing) > - justified Nah, that's bad UI. Might look meaningful for the few items but clutters the UI. indentation is reserved for those objects that belong together, eg. section headline and below the checkboxes or other controls with some pixels indentation.
@Heiko, fine if we move this one to NEW ?
Created attachment 150605 [details] Screenshot Request is to change the order of radio buttons in this tab. I vote for WFM.
For both a Draw Text Box object and other Paragraph text controls, the graphical representation on Sidebar Properties deck -> Paragraph content panel differs from the Paragraph dialog's Alignment tab. On the Sidebar and the Notebook bar the GUI button layout is Left, Centered, Right, Justified in the horizontal; and Top, Centered, Right in the vertical. While I agree with Heiko in comment 4 that the list order (the radio buttons here) should normally be sorted by importance--in this case, where we present both dialog panels and MUFFIN button widgets, consistency trumps that. Visible order in GUI of Left - Center - Right (or Top - Center - Bottom depending on locale) is visually correct. The order on the dialog panel(s) should be made the same as the button order. Agree with the sequence change, but should be no change to grouping of the Justification radio button and its "Last line" handling. It belongs with the other controls, on the dialogs and in the button sequences on Toolbars, Sidebar and Notebook bar.
I'm fine with Stuart's comment.
Okay, so let's do. Smells like an easyhack.
Heiko Tietze committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/16f01f82a765fc51a19be2e370a69eb7819c9ce4 Resolves tdf#65473 - Unintuitive paragraph alignment options It will be available in 7.5.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.