Description: Feature request https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143733 was a bad idea, please see: https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/calc-active-cell-indicator-is-outside-the-cell-framework-24-2-3-2-24-8-0-3/109813 The FR is: to at least implement an on/off toggle. Steps to Reproduce: N/a Actual Results: N/a Expected Results: N/a Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: Yes Additional Info: N/a
For UX-advise design consideration... @Rafael, as the saying goes "No good deed..." if UX-advise picks this up, is a simple toggle even feasible to provide user a choice of the pre-24.8 border format?
Work on bug 142121 bug 143733 and adjustments of position off the cell border for bug 161234 / bug 161709 tweaked just the "selection overlay" which IIUC is more of a focus highlight. Rather than a toggle to bring overlay back onto the cell border--the behavior at 24.2--as the overlay is opaque it now will hide content in adjacent cells. If transparent it would only partly obscure them. Could the overlay line color be made transparent?
As already said in https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/calc-active-cell-indicator-is-outside-the-cell-framework-24-2-3-2-24-8-0-3/109813 I would vote for a **slightly** reduced size of the active-cell-indicator!
Even a partial obscure is an hindrance, image a bookkeeper working with numbers the whole day having to constantly move the focus around just to check values? the original FR was based on what MS-Office does, MSO has never done this, so why is LO implementing something MS hasn't done and even if they have it would have been configurable. What about a simple if/then/else based on a value: <item oor:path="/org.openoffice.Office.Calc/Calculate/Other/CellFocusUI"><prop oor:name="UI" oor:op="fuse"><value>MSO/LO</value></prop></item> Post and Pre 24.8 users will be happy.
A toggle would be silly, the last thing we need right now is a Cambrian explosion of UI options. I would close this as a duplicate of bug 161709. On Friday commit 3b4a8406c2e7f4f6a7ac43e192fdb8ef266d4b6d was made. It makes the indicator hug the cell borders. You can see how it looks like by running a daily build, Win-x86_64@tb77-TDF on Windows from https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/master/current.html
(In reply to Buovjaga from comment #5) > A toggle would be silly, the last thing we need right now is a Cambrian > explosion of UI options. I would close this as a duplicate of bug 161709. Indeed, a toggle would not be a good idea... it would be too much effort to maintain both ways to draw the cell outline. We should mark this ticket as a duplicate of bug 161709, because the idea of making this feature optional was also discussed there. But in the end, let's simply remove the extra space.
(In reply to Buovjaga from comment #5) (In reply to Rafael Lima from comment #6) fair enough --> dupe. And we'll see if the latest overlay adjustment there with https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/172266 commit (matching MSO, and Google Docs) appeals. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 161709 ***