Bug 88840 - Add color customization for sheet tabs and title in Calc
Summary: Add color customization for sheet tabs and title in Calc
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords:
: 57822 166592 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: Options-Dialog Sheet-Tabs-Bar
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Reported: 2015-01-28 02:38 UTC by printf83
Modified: 2025-05-19 06:06 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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LO - Calc multiple selected sheet (CURRENT STYLE and SUGGESTION STYLE) (34.64 KB, image/png)
2015-01-28 02:38 UTC, printf83
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Description printf83 2015-01-28 02:38:31 UTC
Created attachment 112846 [details]
LO - Calc multiple selected sheet (CURRENT STYLE and SUGGESTION STYLE)

Need to higlight page tab when multiple select sheets.

1. open calc
2. add 3 more sheets
3. press and hold SHIFT and click Sheet1 then Sheet3 (to select Sheet1,Sheet2,Sheet3) 

The color of selected sheets changed BUT hard to see the diffrent between selected and not selected sheets

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Comment 1 V Stuart Foote 2015-01-29 19:36:47 UTC
Reasonable--could not find that we already have an option to set the selected tab(s) other than white.

Setting new... but, make the addition to the Tools -> LibreOffice -> Appearance -> Spreadsheet section as a "Sheet tabs" element with color setting and preview.
Comment 2 m_a_riosv 2016-12-11 01:46:11 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 3 Timur 2018-08-14 15:47:20 UTC
We have multiple requests for better visibility of multiple selected sheets. 
Other bugs and this one were marked as a dupe of Bug 57822, probably just because it's earlier. But that bug is messy so that's not correct and I rearrange. 

Let this bug be about addition to the Tools -> Options -> LibreOffice -> Application Colors -> Spreadsheet section: "Sheet tabs" elements (title, background, multiselect title, multiselect backrground) with color setting and preview.
Comment 4 Timur 2018-08-14 15:48:25 UTC
*** Bug 57822 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Cor Nouws 2018-08-22 17:20:30 UTC
(In reply to Timur from comment #3)
> We have multiple requests for better visibility of multiple selected sheets. 
> Other bugs and this one were marked as a dupe of Bug 57822, probably just
> because it's earlier. But that bug is messy so that's not correct and I
> rearrange. 
> 
> Let this bug be about addition to the Tools -> Options -> LibreOffice ->
> Application Colors -> Spreadsheet section: "Sheet tabs" elements (title,
> background, multiselect title, multiselect backrground) with color setting
> and preview.

+ 1
Comment 6 Heiko Tietze 2018-08-22 18:36:08 UTC
Would make it a dup of 104564, and in general it's the best to use the system colors rather than options. But the overall opinion seems to be thumbs-up.
Comment 7 Thomas Lendo 2019-09-11 19:31:03 UTC
Is this still a relevant issue to have a color setting in the options dialog?

I think this issue is not necessary any more since the commits for bug 124572 "tabs in calc (for sheets) and draw (for layer) style" introduced with LibreOffice 6.3 because the grey small bar at the bottom of each sheet tab shows what's selected. Seems not worth to give that small bar a customized color.
Comment 8 m_a_riosv 2025-05-16 23:15:15 UTC
*** Bug 166592 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Phil 2025-05-17 09:48:49 UTC
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #6)
> Would make it a dup of 104564, and in general it's the best to use the
> system colors rather than options. But the overall opinion seems to be
> thumbs-up.

I agree, but the questions are:
1/ are they system options for that.
2/ if yes, the overall opinion is that it's not efficient.

At the very least, it would consider the same default application(not sys) colour, being in Tool > Options > LibreCalc > View > Display : Column/Row highlighting.
Comment 10 Phil 2025-05-17 09:56:16 UTC
Are you against introducing the common opinion of introducing a new field, it's seems to be quick and easy to implement and already "validated"?

Whether as proposed in comment 5:
Tools -> Options -> LibreOffice ->
> Application Colors -> Spreadsheet section: "Sheet tabs"

or as I proposed in duplicate Bug 166592:
Adding a field "activeTabBackgroundColour" in Tools > Options > LibreOffice > Appearance in customizations would permit that.

Thanks
Comment 11 Heiko Tietze 2025-05-19 06:06:21 UTC
Tabs may have different colors (via right click) and any color to indicate the selection is potentially failing. We have a bold bar on the bottom that works well (bug 104564 is WFM). 

One may of course question the need for colorized tabs, but that's a different animal. My take here is WF.