Summary: | Implement OS native highlighting on each component | ||
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Product: | LibreOffice | Reporter: | Emir Sarı <bitigchi> |
Component: | UI | Assignee: | Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs> |
Status: | NEW --- | ||
Severity: | enhancement | CC: | alexandre.f.demers, bitigchi, bugs, bugzilla, documentfoundation.org, fitojb, libreoffice, lo, lukebenes, mentoring, philipz85, yuki.bot |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Crash report or crash signature: | Regression By: | ||
Bug Depends on: | |||
Bug Blocks: | 42082, 112182 | ||
Attachments: |
Calc cell highlighting
Numbers cell highlighting NeoO native cell highlighting |
Description
Emir Sarı
2012-12-04 19:37:21 UTC
Created attachment 71009 [details]
Calc cell highlighting
Created attachment 71010 [details]
Numbers cell highlighting
Created attachment 71011 [details]
NeoO native cell highlighting
Please feel free to add more screenshots/comparisons from different desktop environments. I agree. LibreOffice should use the native highlighting style of every platform, and remove these highlighting customization options that it currently has. > I agree. LibreOffice should use the native highlighting style of every
> platform, and remove these highlighting customization options that it
> currently has.
I agree completely. Using the native highlighting method on every platform would make LibreOffice *feel* native, and would make it immeditaly feel familiar and handy to new users. So, while on the *rational* side this is not one of the most urgent enhancement requests, it is of considerable importance on the *emotional* side.
A simple example of what I mean by rational/emotional importance:
I have resisted for a long time to use GIMP, not because it would not provide most of the features I need for everyday imaging work, but simply because it felt so “clumsy” to me; I was far too familiar (a) to the native Mac OS (X) UI and
(b) to Photoshop. Now GIMP 2.8 has got a semi-native Mac OS X UI, and suddenly I begin to feel comfortable with it, and actually to use it ...
Because of this personal experience I think it is really important to make the UI feel native and familiar to the users, especially the simple basics of the UI, and the highlighting is definitely a part of these basics.
Since bug https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38244 has been solved, and these text ranges still seem to use custom LO highlighting, I wonder if standard Mac highlighting could be tweaked to reflect standard Mac text highlighting colours (shown here: http://www.macmousecalls.com/files/system-preferences3.jpg) Best regards, One downside of using custom highlighting (in this case LO highlighting), it does not really select the glyphs, it just covers them with a layer of its own, so character visibility declines. IMO this is bad m'kay. *** Bug 94784 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Migrating Whiteboard tags to Keywords: (easyHack, difficultyBeginner, skillCpp) [NinjaEdit] There are no code pointer NEEDINFO isnt a suitable status for this bug as nothing is needed from the OP. If code pointers are needed and we want to track such bugs, then a whiteboard keyword would likely be the better option to do that. JanI is default CC for Easy Hacks (Add Jan; remove LibreOffice Dev List from CC) [NinjaEdit] *** Bug 55876 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** |