The arrows that connect comment boxes to the text are on top of each other if you put more than one comment per line. Instead, having them visually separated, even just a little bit, would very much help to figure out which comment belongs to which bit of text.
Already there in 4.0. Valid enhancement request for Writer component. Best regards. JBF
They are not separate in Writer 4.3.4.1 for Mac.
Hi, May be not the good place for this request but it seems about the same. When you are working with "small" screen laptop (1376x768 max resolution on my 15" laptop), for a cover letter at 110% zoom which is quite comfortable to read for me. I noticed that the cover letter has the property to have a big header using 30% of the page. So the commented text can start near the 2/3 of the page. For a single page document I've about 10 comment on the right margin and its pretty difficult to associate de top comments to the associated text in the document. You have to scroll the document to see where the arrow goes and obviously you loose the mouse focus on the comment box and consequently the arrow highlighting. It would be great to have the one of the possibilities: * to hide other comments * to be able to move the comment bubble while having the arrow highlighted in a distinguishable manner. * to have the arrow / comment box clickable to indicate the corresponding text, and stay selected while scrolling the document at readable zoom. It happened on docx revised document opened under Linux xubuntu: Description: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS Release: 14.04 Codename: trusty LibreOffice Version: 4.2.8.2 Build ID: 420m0(Build:2) I attached an screen shot took at 50% zoom to demonstrate the problem visualy. Regards. S.
Created attachment 118795 [details] screenshot document at 50% showing comment disposition screenshot document at 50% showing comment disposition, difficult to link visually at 100% too, comment is loosing focus when document is scrolled.
Design team: this needs a concrete implementation proposal
Created attachment 180870 [details] MSO vs LibO I don't think we can separate the lines since one pixel each adds up to some considerable amount with many comments per line. Alternatively we could highlight the currently selected and in fact we do so. You have to look very carefully to see the border around the focused comment. So make this more obvious? MSO retired the noisy lines and just add some borders. We can follow and have light grey for all unfocused comments and highlight with to the color that the various commenters get when focused. This requires a two-way matching and the actual comment needs to be selected when the word becomes clicked in order to change the highlighting which in turns gives feedback on the author of the comment.
Hi, (In reply to libreoffice from comment #3) > Hi, > > May be not the good place for this request but it seems about the same. Indeed, that looks like a separate issue. There must be a bug already for that. Can you find it pls? thnx - Cor
We discussed the topic in the design meeting. The MSO solution is definitely cleaner but has a major shortcoming: it's not possible to have zero-width comments. If you comment without having a word selected it will be selected automatically. And since the association between the comment and the text is indicated with a frame around the highlighted text plus a solid line (instead of dashed) we think our approach is more flexible. => WF/INV However, the dashed lines become overlaid at a certain position which seems to be a bug. And if this is going to be fixed I could imagine to make the lines a bit less obtrusive. But that's a different topic good for another ticket.