Description: If you have a black or dark background on a slide, the cursors don't change contrast to allow seeing the cursor. ie. black cross-hair on black background can't be seen. Pointer cursor is black but has white outline so can be seen. In Powerpoint, the cross-hair changes to white when on black background so it stays visible. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Set up a slide with a black background 2.Select any of the draw shape/line/arrow from the toolbar. 3.Move cursor over the black slide and you can't see it. Actual Results: You can't see the cross-hair cursor when you have a black background. Expected Results: Cursor in general should have color or highlight so you can see it regardless of the slide background. It needs to be able to switch. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No OpenGL enabled: Yes Additional Info: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0
Created attachment 138908 [details] Powerpoint cursor
Created attachment 138909 [details] Libreoffice Impress cursor
Apologies for not putting this in the first post. Presently testing LO nightly Version: 6.0.0.1.0+ Build ID: 24b3fc49238b1890769fa45571a3043646e4e4b9 CPU threads: 8; OS: Mac OS X 10.11.6; UI render: default;
This is also happening with the text cursor. ie. can't see the black text cursor when the slide background is black.
Confirming with Version: 6.1.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: 5b7ec49f453c3732e2482b26bce4243eb1a10f40 CPU threads: 4; OS: Mac OS X 10.13.2; UI render: default; Locale: fr-FR (fr_FR.UTF-8); Calc: group threaded The really annoying thing about this is that the behaviour is : 1) wrong : for some shapes, e.g. ellipse and rectangle, the cross-hairs are displayed with a contrast border once you have started to draw the object (i.e. click and drag of the mouse button) - however, the user has no idea where the left hand corner of the shape object boundary is actually going to be placed as it is invisible on first placement ; 2) inconsistent : Bezier curve objects, for example, never display the cross-hairs in contrast.
This problem still exists in 6.2alpha. Version: 6.2.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: c8d95ccecfcd31b720fdff67bbd6acbdceaf2546 CPU threads: 8; OS: Mac OS X 10.11.6; UI render: default; TinderBox: MacOSX-x86_64@49-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2018-06-18_00:27:45 Locale: en-CA (en.UTF-8); Calc: group threaded It's pretty frustrating when you can't see the cursor when you have a black background.
Problem still exists in v6.2alpha Version: 6.2.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: 85818da3307a28b2d9c6fa5c1c97ca7833dfe24c CPU threads: 8; OS: Mac OS X 10.11.6; UI render: default; TinderBox: MacOSX-x86_64@49-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2018-08-22_04:15:46 Locale: en-CA (en.UTF-8) It would be appreciated if this could be fixed as I work a lot with presentations that have a dark background.
I don't agree that this is an enhancement. While I can see the logic behind this category, that is to say it doesn't cause LO to crash, it still makes Impress nearly unfunctional when working with presentations that have dark backgrounds. This is a small item but big from a marketing & usability standpoint. The transition to LO from other products should be easy and in particular there shouldn't be anything cosmetic that causes people to switch back because the product is unusable in certain use cases.
This issue still exists in LO 6.3alpha. Any idea when this might be fixed? It is impossible to use the cross hair cursor when drawing a shape etc. when you have a dark background.
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