Description: Writer comment: Author and Date info should use same padding as is used for comment text Steps to Reproduce: Create a comment in writer. Actual Results: Author and Timestamp are stuck to the left boarder of the comment field. Expected Results: Author and Timestamp should use same padding as is used for the comment text. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: Version: 24.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 479b5bbe8ca2177ba7574e7aa2308b5d0de1895c CPU threads: 8; OS: macOS 13.6.5; UI render: Skia/Metal; VCL: osx Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded
Created attachment 193195 [details] Screenshot 2024-03-19 Author and Date should use same padding as comment text
OOo 3.3 and 24.2.2.2 have both flush to the left border. Padding was added by 1dc0c8c8304ebbce0a2e05e89a3b5458d88f3630 for bug 159531 (should have looked at the "see also" before bibisecting, but I was mislead by the 3.3 as earliest version affected 😅) Heiko says in bug 159531 comment 9: > Different code, probably not easy to find. Having the author information drawn differently to the content is not bad (although spacing is our friend). Note that the "Reply to" header has the same padding as the comment. I agree that the spacing of the authorship info could be improved, it feels too close to the edge now that everything else is spaced. And there is no extra space between text and authorship info. More opinion from other UX/Design contributors?
Created attachment 193477 [details] screenshot with "reply to" header, and "resolved" status
No objection to a few pixel whitespace. But as additional info these lines do not need to align with the actual comment and are less important. Potential code pointer: SwAnnotationWin::DrawForPage() in sw/source/uibase/docvw/AnnotationWin2.cxx
Manas Todi committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/57b3eb385b4ae100c5121d47845b46084fd9ed19 tdf#160276: CUI: Increase left margin for comment author and date labels It will be available in 26.2.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Created attachment 202938 [details] Screenshot 2025-09-23 improved, not yet perfectly aligned This has improved. Not sure what the expected structure should be. If alginment should be there, this is not it. If the indentation is expected, guess we could call this fixed and Author + Date info no longer is glued to the left side and looking a bit better now.