https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149796
Bug ID: 149796
Summary: styles / document: "autoupdate" -- misleading meaning
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
hi,
I'm sure that one can argue the opposite, but look at styles and the process of
writing a document...
if you have a document (this is your "scope", the context within which you
think), and see the checkbox and its title: "autoupdate", what would that mean?
What meaning would you rad from this?
it will mean: "if I check this, my page will automatically update once the
style is modified, ah, cool, that's what I want"
How wrong! :)
It will mean, in reality, that once you modify a paragraph's "look" (by
applying direct formatting), your style will be modified, I mean, your style in
your template! And then all your documents, whenever you click "OK" to the
popup: "your style has changed, do you want to update your document?", the
template will me modded...
This shouldn't work like this.
"autoupdate" is ANYWAY a superfluous category in terms of styles, cause the
point in the using styles is to get pages "automatically updated"...
so, a different name should be invented to preserve / achieve integrity...
and that title / name should reflect what will happen...
for example:
"reverse update" (something analogous to "feedback" would be better),
or "doc-to-template update" .... (from this, the real-time is what's missing)
or "real time template update"
you name it :)
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AND there is something faulty in it systemically, too:
cause this checkbox you can "tick" (check) in the template...
which will cause a LOOP...
cause if it is checked in the template... (the person using the program will
think in the template's scope, thinking that the template's style will do what
a template's style has to do anyway: autoupdate)
whilst in reality, she or he will give all future documents based on that
template a "write-back" editing access to the template's styles
I hope I'm not completely wrong :) or rather, I hope I am! :)
Peter
- - - thank you for developing Writer - - -
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