[Bug 161765] EDITING: Copying cells in Calc doesn't show marching ants animation, neither in default configuration nor regardless of the expert option "AnimationsEnabled", unless the OS’s "Show animations" setting is switched on.

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161765

--- Comment #17 from Per99 <solare99 at gmx.de> ---
The three settings regarding animations doesn’t seem to have any influence to
each other.
1. The current boolean expert setting AnimationsEnabled: It is only used in
Calc to switch off the marching ants feature, but it can’t enable it (unless
_all_ animations are switched on in the OS’s setting). It isn’t used for
anything else than the marching ants feature.

2. The other animations settings are for animated text resp. animated graphics
such as GIF images. These options are unrelated to the marching ants feature.

3. The new behaviour having the OS’s all-or-nothing animation setting to
override LO’s animation setting was introduced in LO 24.2, also for MS Windows,
not just for MacOS. Animations in LO is then effectivly _prohibited_ unless
OS’s all-or-nothing animation setting is switched on.
This is the case for both the marching ants feature as well as for graphic
animation feature. This behaviour is for the user both surprising and
undesirable, IMHO.
The current implementation of both the setting “allow animation images” and
expert setting “ AnimationsEnabled” are effectivly deny-animation-settings,
with no options to switch them on in LO’s settings.

4. LO’s setting should have precidence over the OS’s settings, not the other
way around. 

5. Regarding naming: In MacOS it might be called “reduced animations”, but in
MS Windows the OS’s setting for switching on/off animations is an
all-or-nothing option called "Show animations in Windows".

6. Current state of work: screenshots from glade: 
https://postimg.cc/gallery/JjthJ6J
The alignments are not yet perfect. Please come with feedback.

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