Bug 144738 - "Fat Cross" cursor has extra shadow on Windows
Summary: "Fat Cross" cursor has extra shadow on Windows
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.2.0.4 release
Hardware: All Windows (All)
: low trivial
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Blocks: Mouse-Cursor
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Reported: 2021-09-26 18:31 UTC by fml2
Modified: 2023-05-15 05:50 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Attachments
Current calc fat cross, magnified to 600% (949 bytes, image/png)
2021-09-26 18:32 UTC, fml2
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Excel's fat cross, magnified to 600% (1.09 KB, image/png)
2021-09-26 18:33 UTC, fml2
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Fat cross as I'd like it (current one also included) (2.59 KB, image/png)
2021-09-26 18:33 UTC, fml2
Details
Fat-Cursor comparison (5.64 KB, image/png)
2022-02-06 12:10 UTC, bugzilla2
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Description fml2 2021-09-26 18:31:50 UTC
Description:
The excel like "fat cross" cursor looks ugly IMO. At least on windows. That it's too big and fat is one thing and is a matter of taste.

But it has extra shadow that does not belong there.

I attach a magnified to 600% picture of the calc fat cross and the excel fat cross for comparison. The extra shadows can be clearly seen.

I attach three images:

1. Fat cross from Calc
2. Fat cross from Excel
3. Fat cross as I'd like it

I did not consider hight DPI displays here.

Steps to Reproduce:
Start calc and choose the view option to use a fat cross as the mouse pointer.

Actual Results:
Ugly fat cross with extra shadows.

Expected Results:
Nice fat cross.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
n/a
Comment 1 fml2 2021-09-26 18:32:35 UTC
Created attachment 175282 [details]
Current calc fat cross, magnified to 600%
Comment 2 fml2 2021-09-26 18:33:06 UTC
Created attachment 175283 [details]
Excel's fat cross, magnified to 600%
Comment 3 fml2 2021-09-26 18:33:55 UTC
Created attachment 175284 [details]
Fat cross as I'd like it (current one also included)
Comment 4 Timur 2021-09-27 13:03:46 UTC
You are likely aware of bug 104169. 
I propose this be a duplicate of bug 142500, so please write this there (you may reuse attachment 123456 [details] links, no need to reupload).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 142500 ***
Comment 5 fml2 2021-09-27 17:14:10 UTC
I don't see how this bug is a duplicate of bug 142500. The subject of bug 142500 is the lack of the curstors for high DPI displays. In this report, the form of the cursor on low DPI is discussed.

I'd prefer to discuss the two issues separately. So please re-open this issue.
Comment 6 Timur 2021-09-28 13:10:05 UTC
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html#bug_status 
Reopen is different, this would be Unconfirmed. 

But both are for designer, and it's better to keep together IMO, just explain. 
If just HiRes is done there, then it's easy to set this one New.
Comment 7 Heiko Tietze 2021-09-28 14:19:50 UTC
The cross is crisp for me in the running application and also in the PNG. 

Version: 7.3.0.0.alpha0+ / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 4dd6af856d574ad66ebb4b822a36ba70af9945e2
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.14; UI render: default; VCL: kf5 (cairo+xcb)
Locale: de-DE (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 8 bugzilla2 2022-02-06 12:10:34 UTC
Created attachment 178089 [details]
Fat-Cursor comparison

I can confirm the issue on Windows 10. No matter if SKIA Hardware- or Software-Rendering is used...
Comment 9 bugzilla2 2022-02-06 12:12:00 UTC
Forgot to say, I don't use a high-dpi monitor. Scale-Factor in Windows is 100%.
Comment 10 Buovjaga 2022-12-08 12:28:51 UTC
I reproduce.

To see the cross, go to Tools ▸ Options ▸ Calc ▸ View and check "Themed"

Version: 7.5.0.0.alpha1+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 52c75986adc2b370eb55ce918ab1db0a95831c83
CPU threads: 2; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19044; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded Jumbo
Comment 11 Rizal Muttaqin 2022-12-08 13:45:37 UTC
Hi, anyone can see the themed cursor with

https://github.com/LibreOffice/core/blob/master/icon-themes/<icon-theme-name>/vcl/res/fatcross.<png;svg>

Assuming Windows use default Colibre and no Hi-DPI so probably the file is

https://github.com/LibreOffice/core/blob/master/icon-themes/colibre/vcl/res/fatcross.png

Comparing this to the screenshot, I can see differences in shadow darkness and some extra pixels also. So all I can say is this bug need code, not design tuning.