https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161765
--- Comment #9 from Patrick Luby (volunteer) <[email protected]> --- (In reply to crxssi from comment #8) > It is interesting that there is a valid case both FOR marching ants being on > for accessibility and also OFF for accessibility, depending on your personal > accessibility problem. I hadn't thought of that. > > I echo @ady 's sentiment that having LO honor the OS setting as the default > makes sense, while also having explicit control over the setting in LO. I > also believe, like I asserted in bug 115688, that having the marching ants > control exposed in Tools -> Options -> Accessibility and not just in > hidden/buried in Expert options would be even more helpful. I've been thinking about this today. I am a big fan of accessibility so I had the same surprise as @crxssi. I can see reasonably well with correction but I am quite annoyed by the marching ants. I just got accustomed to hammering the Escape key immediately after pressing Command-C. I implemented the native setting integration when I realized 1) others felt the same as me and 2) it would be controlled by a very specific macOS accessibility setting. Seemed like a low risk of upsetting existing users. :/ I can definitely see how useful the marching ants are especially if you need to copy and paste a lot. For me, the marching ants are a quick way to locate the last cell copied when I want to verify that I pasted what I intended to). So where do we go from here? I'm no accessibility expert at all, but maybe the problem is that the marching ants really just doesn't work for a lot of people but we need a different way to highlight the cell last copied. I admit that while I dislike the marching ants I took a look at Microsoft Excel and they have a much slower, thicker marching ants. Unfortunately, I'm no UI expert either so maybe there is a better solution that is easy for someone like me to implement such as a solid rectangle but different color than the selected cell? Personally, I like how drawing of the marching ants' rectangle is contained within the cell so (just like Microsoft Excel) so that it looks slightly smaller than the selected cell. Just my thoughts. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
