https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168719
Bug ID: 168719
Summary: Always show RTL/CTL and CJK editing features
Product: LibreOffice
Version: Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Keywords: needsUXEval
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: UI
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Reporter: jonat...@libreoffice.org
Blocks: 164250
Currently, we hide certain features and user interface elements from users
unless they've enabled the "Asian" and "Complex text layout" checkboxes in
Options -> Languages and Locales -> General.
We should consider showing all of these features to all users, instead. The
options to disable these language groups would be removed, and LibreOffice
would be hard-coded to behave as if they are always enabled, regardless of
configuration.
Pros:
- These features cannot be automatically turned on for all users who need them.
By always showing these GUI elements, we would be fixing a usability problem.
- The conditional GUI increases implementation complexity, both on the code
side and on the UX design side. By removing these toggles, we would
significantly reduce the number of potential GUI variants to design, code, and
test.
Cons:
- Western-only users may get a more "cluttered" GUI in certain places, such as
the character dialog. (But RTL/CTL and CJK users have been living with this, so
maybe it will force us to think of ways to improve their experience too.)
- Western-only users may start using language-specific features incorrectly,
e.g. treating RTL text direction as right-align, or Asian vertical direction as
a 90 degree rotate. (But users are already doing this, so to a certain extent
it's unavoidable. Maybe we can also adjust text or UX to make it more clear
what these features are meant to do.)
See more discussion in bug 168624.
Referenced Bugs:
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164250
[Bug 164250] [META] RTL, CTL, CJK users do not see full RTL-CTL/CJK support
enabled
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