[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 134151] New: UI: Make it more difficult to accidentally enable "track changes" feature

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134151

            Bug ID: 134151
           Summary: UI: Make it more difficult to accidentally enable
                    "track changes" feature
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 6.4.4.2 release
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: LibreOffice
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: rgb.mldc at gmail.com

In ask.libreoffice you'll find many (many![1]) threads in which users ask why
they are not able to delete content anymore, or pointing out that new text is
in a different color, etc. All those "problems" come from accidentally enabling
the "track changes" feature. 

In all keyboards, Shift and Ctrl keys are close together, and that means that's
quite easy to, by accident, hit Ctrl-Shift-C (the default shortcut for "track
changes") instead of plain, and quite common, Ctrl-C or Shift-C. This is
specially true for compact keyboards such as those you find in laptops /
notebooks.

My suggestion is therefore to consider a change in the default shortcut for
"Track Changes" so it's more difficult to activate that feature by chance.
Perhaps a four key shortcut (it's almost impossible to hit Ctrl-Alt-Shift-C by
accident) will save a lot of people, specially new users, from a sudden
puzzling situation. 

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[1] Just one of the latest threads as example: 

https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/251211/how-do-i-stop-all-characters-appearing-in-wrong-font/

but seriously, this "problem" appears so often that it deserves consideration.

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