<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - UI option "Scaling" was removed" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101646#c47">Comment # 47</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - UI option "Scaling" was removed" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101646">bug 101646</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:vstuart.foote@utsa.edu" title="V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote@utsa.edu>"> V Stuart Foote</a> <pre>(In reply to Alex ARNAUD from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=101646#c46">comment #46</a>) > This regression highly impact accessibility because making user able to > increase size of the interface was a great advantage of LibreOffice compared > to Microsoft Office. Also as I understand, LibreOffice design team seems to > want to make LibreOffice customisable and adaptable to the user needs. @Alex, this was a conscious developer decision to prune code of an unsupportable feature--in effect for the 5.3, 5.4, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2 and now 6.3 major releases. We can not reasonably now call it a regression as it is long gone. Yes it would be a good enhancement, and worth reimplementing. And, yes it could be considered an Assistive Technology for our low vision users, but best done in context with other needed improvements (like <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - Feature Request: Display found word/phrase in a constant position on the screen and change highlight colour" href="show_bug.cgi?id=105610">bug 105610</a>). Refactoring to reimplement UI scaling in a modern fashion (with HiDPI and render engine support) would be a substantial development effort.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>