Bug 127658 - Cursor barely visible onto document backgrounds set darker
Summary: Cursor barely visible onto document backgrounds set darker
Status: RESOLVED NOTOURBUG
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
6.3.1.2 release
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: needsUXEval
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Reported: 2019-09-20 08:48 UTC by ricky.tigg
Modified: 2019-09-26 09:21 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description ricky.tigg 2019-09-20 08:48:41 UTC
Description:
Location of the cursor can barely be detected.

Steps to Reproduce:
Under Tools | Options | section LibreOffice | Application Colors | Document background was set darker –Light Gray 2–. 

Actual Results:
Location of the cursor can barely be detected due to degraded contrast. 

Expected Results:
Setting alone cursor width to wider would solve that state. Though Help indicates that it is not present as such feature. Eventually observation would aptly to some of the suite's applications.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
Version: 6.3.1.2; Build ID: 6.3.1.2-1.fc31; CPU threads: 2; OS: Linux 5.3; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US; Calc: threaded
Comment 1 Dieter 2019-09-25 06:05:36 UTC
No problem for me (personally) to detect cursor, but I also think, that an improvement could be useful

cc: Design TEam for further input
Comment 2 Heiko Tietze 2019-09-25 06:14:37 UTC
The same happens when you run a dark theme and switch to a bright background. Point is, you/your desktop has to take care of the cursor to fit into the color scheme. On Linux/Qt you would have the cursors "Breeze" with a dark background and "Breeze Light" with a white background (both are framed with the inverted color so reading white on white is not a problem).

In a nutshell: please check your system settings. =>NAB
Comment 3 ricky.tigg 2019-09-26 09:21:23 UTC
Hey. Improvement alone was reported! I omitted to mention that my observation regarding visibility applied as well to the pointer. If it cannot be seen correctly, then an improvement regarding width is obviously a relevant suggestion to mitigate that observed design weakness. 

Using the same background color setting. a new test was conducted:

Version: 6.3.1.2 (x64); Build ID: b79626edf0065ac373bd1df5c28bd630b4424273; CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0; UI render: GL; VCL: win; Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI); UI-Language: en-US; Calc: threaded

- Same observation as under Gnome regarding the cursor;
- The pointer is there correctly visible.