Created attachment 176321 [details] Sample XLSX file When you click a cell in LO Calc, a selection outline is drawn in black to show which cell is selected. However, when you create a file in Excel and apply default borders (which have width of 0.75pt) the selection outline becomes invisible in LO Calc with zoom levels 160% and above. To reproduce: 1) Open the attached file (XLSX) and zoom in to around (160% or 180%) 2) Click anywhere inside the table; notice that it is not possible to see the selection outline; it's very hard (or not possible at all depending on zoom level) to tell which cell is selected. 3) Click outside and notice that LO Calc's default outline is too thin This becomes an issue in two major situations: 1) For Excel interoperability, since borders in Excel use by default black color and width of 0.75 pt and the selection outline becomes invisible in Calc 2) There seems to be an interest in making 0.75pt the default in Calc as well (see comment #27 in bug 48622); hence this problem may become more noticeable in the future; Currently LO Calc uses hairline width (0.05 pt) so this is why the selection outline is not a problem when using Calc's default settings at any zoom level. To improve the situation, there are a few ideas: 1) Use a different color (f.i. the system's highlight color) 2) Increase the outline width PS: The issue does not occur with zoom 100%... however it is very common to use higher zoom levels and when this is done the outline becomes invisible. This is why there's room for improvement in how the cell selection outline is handled.
Created attachment 176322 [details] ODG file with screenshots To better illustrate my point, I have just added an ODG file with 3 screenshots: 1) How Google Drive handles the same file: notice they use a blue outline that is visible over default black borders; 2) How Excel Online handles the same file: they use a thick green border that is very visible; 3) How LO Calc handles the same file: starting with zoom 160% the outline becomes very hard to notice and increasing the zoom level makes it disappear.
https://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/sc/source/ui/view/gridwin.cxx?r=3509a42a#6289 https://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/svx/source/sdr/overlay/overlayselection.cxx?r=fa311ad6#100 FYI: https://opengrok.libreoffice.org/s?refs=OverlaySelection&project=core
Today we have a blue cell cursor in Calc (see attach) in current 7.3 daily build
Created attachment 176350 [details] the blue cell cursor in LO Calc 7.3
(In reply to Roman Kuznetsov from comment #4) > Created attachment 176350 [details] > the blue cell cursor in LO Calc 7.3 That's true... I've just tried LO 7.3 compiled from source and indeed the cursor is light blue (looks great btw). I could not locate which patch changed the cursor color to blue.
(In reply to Rafael Lima from comment #5) > (In reply to Roman Kuznetsov from comment #4) > > Created attachment 176350 [details] > > the blue cell cursor in LO Calc 7.3 > > That's true... I've just tried LO 7.3 compiled from source and indeed the > cursor is light blue (looks great btw). > > I could not locate which patch changed the cursor color to blue. It were https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/122602 https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/123300
Roman, thanks for the info. Fixing bug 142121 also fixed this enhancement request. So I'll mark this one as NOTABUG, since it had been previously fixed. I updated the release notes for 7.3 to reflect this change.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 142121 ***