https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168289
Bug ID: 168289
Summary: List styles inconsistently applied
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
We have various methods to make paragraphs appear as a list:
a) via Stylist in the sidebar, and picking one of the Bullet styles
b1) per menu Styles > Bullet • List Style
b2) per context menu List > Bullet • List Style
c) attaching a list style to the paragraph
d) per toolbar clicking the icon
e1) per toolbar expanding the icon and picking one of the items from the
"bullet gallery"
e2) per dialog Bullet and Numbering
The first batch of options a), b), and c) apply a "named list style" to the
paragraph, which will be consistent across the document. Changing the style
modifies all lists (and ordered lists continue the numbering). It will follow
the predefined bullet-only design on all level and does not add any a small
indentation.
The toolbar option d) adds a list on-the-fly with a larger indentation, and
varying glyph depending on the level. Variant e) does it similarly but the list
will show only bullets in case of the first item (see bug 166229 for this).
Changes to lists done via d) or e) are applied only to the one list.
This is hard to understand for users. To focus on the inconsistency between
a-c) and d-e) in this ticket, we may align the styles and use the same
properties. Historically the default was to use different glyphs and some
indentation. Alternatively we may stick to one glyph and no indentation for the
first level given that the bullet itself is a sufficient indicator of the list.
And the level are clearly recognizable with the indentation.
To make the difference between named lists and unnamed more clear I suggest to
rename the toolbar list into "Dynamic list style", for example.
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