Bug 45085 - VIEWING: Notes/comments are (in most cases) displayed in background of form controls
Summary: VIEWING: Notes/comments are (in most cases) displayed in background of form c...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Whiteboard: BSA
Keywords:
: 103886 150592 159994 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: Calc-Comments
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Reported: 2012-01-22 06:56 UTC by Zarko Zivanov
Modified: 2024-10-10 02:22 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Tooltips below form controls (233.19 KB, image/png)
2012-01-22 06:56 UTC, Zarko Zivanov
Details
file with controls and notes, from 3.5.0RC3 (9.64 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet)
2012-02-06 05:32 UTC, Cor Nouws
Details
file with controls and notes, from 3.4.5 (9.25 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet)
2012-02-06 05:33 UTC, Cor Nouws
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Description Zarko Zivanov 2012-01-22 06:56:43 UTC
Created attachment 55961 [details]
Tooltips below form controls

Problem description: 
If there are controls on the sheet, tooltips are displayed below controls, making them unreadable.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Put some buttons to the sheet
2. Make a tooltip for a cell that is left of the buttons
3. Hover over the cell to display a tooltip -> tooltip is displayed below controls

Current behavior:
Tooltips are displayd below form controls.

Expected behavior:
Tooltips should be displayd on top of form controls.

Platform (if different from the browser): 
Ubuntu 11.10 32-bit, LO 3.4.5, 3.4.4, 3.4.3, Mint Debian 32-bit, LO 3.3.3
              
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Ubuntu; X11; Linux i686; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0.1
Comment 1 Zarko Zivanov 2012-01-22 08:16:22 UTC
I just tested LO 3.5.0rc1 (as part of QA/BugHunting Session 3.5.0.-2), and this is still a bug.
Comment 2 Cor Nouws 2012-02-06 05:31:17 UTC
Hi Zarko,
thanks for testing and the bug.
I can confirm this.

Additional:
when I creata a file with controls and comments in 3.4.5, initially the notes are visible.
But after closing and reopening the file, they are hidden too.
Comment 3 Cor Nouws 2012-02-06 05:32:43 UTC
Created attachment 56668 [details]
file with controls and notes, from 3.5.0RC3
Comment 4 Cor Nouws 2012-02-06 05:33:21 UTC
Created attachment 56669 [details]
file with controls and notes, from 3.4.5
Comment 5 Markus Mohrhard 2012-02-06 11:25:36 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 6 Cor Nouws 2012-02-06 12:06:19 UTC
(In reply to comment #5)
> Is this a regression against 3.4?

As explained in my comment: party: with creating teh document 3.4.5 is OK.
With reopening, both versions are bad.
Comment 7 Markus Mohrhard 2012-02-06 13:52:56 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 8 Cor Nouws 2012-02-06 13:57:34 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 9 dE 2012-04-15 21:06:11 UTC
Not that much of an annoying feature.
Comment 10 Cor Nouws 2012-04-16 12:36:52 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 11 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2012-11-21 09:56:22 UTC
Not a new problem, already [Reproducible] with Server Installation of "LibreOffice 3.3.3  German UI/Locale [OOO330m19 (Build:301) tag libreoffice-3.3.3.1] on German WIN7 Home Premium (64bit). So inherited from OOo, and so definiteively not a "3.5 MAB" (but may be an enhancement request).
AOOo decision: WONTFIX (because of conflicting interests?)

I removed target information due to facts.

Steps how to reproduce (creeating a sample document similar to Cor's):
0. Open new Spreadsheet from LibO start center
1. If necessary, menu 'View -> Toolbars -> Form Controls'
2. Insert a Push button covereing cells C4:E7
3. Click B9
4. Menu 'Insert -> Comment', type Text 
   "This is a commt with some very long text in it" (or similar)
5. Click on an empty cell to leafe comment
   > Small comment mark is in cell B9
6. Move mouse pointer into B9 over comment mark
   As Expected, comment becomes visible
7. In Form Controls toolbar disable "Design Mode"
8. Redo step 6
   Problem: Comment now appears behind the push button

With active 'Show Comment' the problem also is visible while Form Controls are in Design Mode.

The question is how a solution should look? "Comments visible" in front of form controls can make form controls unusable, but invisible Comments are not very useful.

My suggestion:
"Normally Invisible" Comments always should appear in front of buttons. Normally they are hidden and do not cause access problems for the form controls

I can't understand why the creator of a spreadsheet inserts "Normally visible" Comments what conflict with push buttons? But if the user activates enduring visibility it is ok that the comment appears behind form controls to keep access to form controls. But an Enhancement could bring the comment to the forgeground when the user moves the mouse pointer to the Comment mark?
Comment 12 Fredrik Lonn 2013-04-07 08:01:14 UTC
Yes definitely inherited from OOo. Usually happens less often in Portable OOo 3.2 though, and that's why I still use that version. One thing to think of is that this is not just a problem with form controls like buttons etc. For example it happens for a window freeze as well. The comment does not show up on top of the window freeze line. The Freeze lines is shown on top of the comment which makes it hard to edit the comment etc. This is separately filed as bugs already.

As Rainer Bielefeld writes:
"But an Enhancement could bring the comment to the forgeground when the user moves the mouse pointer to the Comment mark?"
I agree that this would be the perfect solution.

The addition to that It would be good if the comment would be brought to foreground of every possible thing that could interfere with the comment, not just form controls.
Comment 13 Buovjaga 2016-11-24 08:38:22 UTC
*** Bug 103886 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 14 Wolfgang Jäger 2023-03-03 13:59:31 UTC
Coming from a post in the openoffice.org forum (https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?t=109574) I tested with LibO V7.5.0.3.

Result: 
1. This bug is resolved for annotations created with 7.5.
2. Using one of the attachments to this report: The bug still is showing.

Conclusions:
1.a. This bug wasn't marked as related to or duplicate of a different bug which was fixeds meanwhile.
1.b. There was made a change with a related side effect. 
2. The fix / chgange did the job incompletrely.

See alo tdf#150592 . That bug was reported for V 7.4.0.3 .
Comment 15 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2024-03-05 01:59:56 UTC
*** Bug 150592 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 16 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2024-03-05 02:05:16 UTC
*** Bug 159994 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 17 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2024-03-05 02:48:12 UTC
(In reply to Wolfgang Jäger from comment #14)
> Result: 
> 1. This bug is resolved for annotations created with 7.5.
Are you sure you tested with Design Mode turned off? (Tools > Forms > Design Mode)
I tested with 24.2.1 and can still reproduce from scratch.

Version: 24.2.1.1 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 359ef544e625d2ffbfced462ab37bd593ca85fa7
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.5; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 18 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2024-03-05 05:09:13 UTC
Arranging the comments to front and the control to back has no effect.

And it is inconsistent:

+-------------+----------------+---------------+
| Design mode | Comments shown | Popup comment |
+-------------+----------------+---------------+
| On          | Behind         | Above         |
| Off         | Behind         | Behind        |
+-------------+----------------+---------------+

3 duplicates here, various comments on the AOO bug report also contesting the "won't fix" decision, and UX agreeing that it needs fixing in bug 150592 comment 5.

So I am setting it back to bug instead of enhancement, as (on top of the above) I can't see a reason why anyone would like or expect the current behaviour (at least as a default).
Comment 19 Archie Ferguson 2024-10-10 02:22:13 UTC
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