[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 129847] New: ### indication of "cell too narrow" should additionally show "more content" red arrow

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129847

            Bug ID: 129847
           Summary: ### indication of "cell too narrow" should
                    additionally show "more content" red arrow
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Keywords: needsUXEval
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: Calc
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: mikekaganski at hotmail.com
                CC: erack at redhat.com

Created attachment 156977
  --> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=156977&action=edit
Arrow shown for "more text available"

There is an ### indication that usually (*) means "cell is not wide enough to
show the content" [1]. E.g., a datetime with format like
`YYYY-MM-DD"T"HH:MM:SS` typically does not fit into the default column width.
However, there are lots of questions "I see ### instead of something; how to
fix?" [2] - which shows it's not always clear to novice users.

We have another indication that content doesn't fit - for *text* values: e.g.,
put a long string into a cell which isn't allowed to wrap text, and put
something to the neighbour cell to disallow the text to continue to the right
empty cell; see the small red arrow (see screenshot).

The proposal is to add the red arrow *also* to the ### indication, which would
hopefully make the indication more intuitive, suggesting "widen me to see it
full".

* there are cases when this indication is produced for other cases, which
should be a bug - irrelevant to the discussed issue

[1] https://help.libreoffice.org/6.4/en-US/text/scalc/05/02140000.html
[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22%23%23%23%22+site%3Aask.libreoffice.org

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