[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 158414] A shape with 100% transparency (or no fill and no border) can't be easily selected with the mouse in Calc

[bugzilla-daemon at bugs.documentfoundation.org]

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158414

Stéphane Guillou (stragu) <stephane.guillou at libreoffice.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                 OS|Windows (All)               |All
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEW
     Ever confirmed|0                           |1
                 CC|                            |libreoffice-ux-advise at lists
                   |                            |.freedesktop.org,
                   |                            |stephane.guillou at libreoffic
                   |                            |e.org
           Keywords|                            |needsUXEval
            Summary|A shape with 100%           |A shape with 100%
                   |transparency can't be       |transparency (or no fill
                   |accessed                    |and no border) can't be
                   |                            |easily selected with the
                   |                            |mouse in Calc
             Blocks|                            |112182

--- Comment #7 from Stéphane Guillou (stragu) <stephane.guillou at libreoffice.org> ---
This is the same for a shape with no border and no fill.
MS Office (I tested online) draws a dashed outline when hovering over the
object's border, whereas LO Calc has no indication that the cursor is above the
border.
At least, Writer and Impress have the cursor change when hovering over the
invisible border: from caret to pointer in Writer, from pointer to hand in
Impress.

In Calc, the object can still be selected, but the user would have to entirely
guess where exactly the border is, or use the Navigator.

My suggestion would be:
- Calc: change cursor when hovering over border, like in other modules
- all modules: (add option to) draw a temporary dashed outlines to denote the
object size

Version: 24.2.0.0.alpha1+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 5589659829f8a1cef8ca1c8a468732105bbe231b
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded


Referenced Bugs:

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112182
[Bug 112182] [META] Selection of text, cells and objects
-- 
You are receiving this mail because:
You are on the CC list for the bug.