VIEWING: The size and position of the comment indicator (the red dot) has been changed in LO 4.4.0.3. Presumably this is to make it more visible, which it does. However, it also partially obscures the right-most character if the cell contents are right-aligned. This can make the cell unreadable. For example, lower case b, d, and u are indistinguishable (default font, Windows 8.1). It is possible to do a work-around with formatting on the cell, but if there are a lot of comments, this becomes a real pain.
Reproducible with LO 4.4.0.3, Win 8.1.
strange enough, not included in the release notes ..
Would it be reasonable to put the comment indicator in the left corner if the cell contents are right-aligned?
Created attachment 114379 [details] Red squares obscuring numerals I like that the new red squares are more visible, but they obscure numbers. Can they be made partially transparent?
*** Bug 91372 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
offending commit draw white border around note marks for fdo#81032 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=902b7e9f192fab45cffc35d81cd0df0373a610ed
Laurent Godard committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=2d1abfff0156c17cdaabf27c01e92b5e3f0bbbf4 draw Note mark before text for correct ZOrder tdf#89182 It will be available in 5.0.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Recommendation: Remove the white border and change the comment indicator from a square to a right triangle. This will dramatically reduce the obscured area. Can also add an alpha value to the comment indicator to make it translucent.
Laurent Godard committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-4-4": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=ab6ea2f8e73c4a0785bb2a6b256fc521ee120d98&h=libreoffice-4-4 draw Note mark before text for correct ZOrder tdf#89182 It will be available in 4.4.4. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
I put this bug as FIXED as the patch responds to initial report For other Note marks modifications, please open a new issue as "enhancement request" and ping UX guys
Thanks Laurent. I added an enhancement request as Bug #91415. Do you mind pinging the others?
LO Calc 5.0.2 (release) still draws the white border around each comment indicator. Offending code identified by Laurent in comment #6. My understanding is the patch in comment #9 was supposed to fix this. Setting status to REOPENED.
"red squares" are now semi-transparent so they do not hide anymore the cell text a s in the original screenshot I set status to RESOLVED WORKSFORME tested under Win8.1 x64 using LibO 5.0.3.1
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