Bug 101223

Summary:	Make the selection state clear by changing the mouse cursor
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Heiko Tietze <heiko.tietze>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	fitojb
Priority:	medium
Version:	5.3.0.0.alpha0+
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Crash report or crash signature:		Regression By:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	100155
Attachments:	Cursor for selection in GIMP

Description Heiko Tietze 2016-07-30 09:36:01 UTC

The selection of multiple objects is possible today when the shift key is pressed. (It works also with alt but likely as a side-effect of traversing the z-order of stacked objects). It would be helpful when the cursor reflects the state by adding a small plus decoration to it.

This is primarily a question for Draw an Impress but actually relevant for all modules.

Comment 1 Heiko Tietze 2016-07-30 09:45:31 UTC

Created attachment 126484 [details]
Cursor for selection in GIMP

Example how the cursor looks like in GIMP. Despite the fact that the cursor does not follows the system default, the small + at the upper right corner indicates that shift is being pressed (also written in the status bar).

Comment 2 Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 2016-07-31 09:03:42 UTC

→ NEW.

Custom cursors are located in vcl/win/src/* and vcl/osx/res/cursors/*; would also need to provide one for Linux

Comment 3 Heiko Tietze 2018-06-08 08:31:49 UTC

No objection to this proposal so removing UX advice.