https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167090
--- Comment #15 from ady <[email protected]> --- There is no need for a video for this issue. If you modify the width of a column, something got to give space on its side, naturally. In Calc, all the adjacent columns to the End move toward the End, so the width of the current column can be expanded. In Calc, all the adjacent columns to the End move toward the Start, so the width of the current column can be contracted. You keep focusing on some side of some limit. You are not setting a new location of a limit towards any direction; you are setting the width of the column. Anything else is just a natural consequence. Maybe in a few years, instead of a using the arrow keys (or whichever other keyboard shortcut applies to whichever other effect), users will press ctrl and blink with their right eye, and Calc will end up expanding the width of the current column. After that, you might speak to Calc, giving commands. Then, you would just think about what you want to achieve, no keyboard shortcuts required. Or AI will do it for you, without having to think about it; who knows. Until then, these current keyboard shortcuts work as expected, consistently, and intuitively. These are keyboard shortcuts to change the width of the current column, not a blinking light on a car indicating the direction of your next turn. There is no direction involved in these shortcuts. Whichever the direction of the worksheet, if I want to expand the width of the current column, I can press the same keyboard shortcut, [CTRL]+[right_arrow], and the width of the column expands. Similarly, ctrl+c copies the selection, whichever the direction of the worksheet, or whichever the direction of the language of that selection. What you are proposing means that when the user wants to expand the width of the column, he has to first consider "Am I on a LTR worksheet, or a RTL worksheet?, Ahh, yes, I review my current context, so the adequate keyboard shortcut should be..., argh, no, not that one, it was the other one. I have to remember these in the correct way. I get confused between the direction of the worksheet and the direction of the text I am looking at. I just wanted to expand the width of the current column; why should I care about the direction of the worksheet?". I could understand if you were to tell me that when you press the left_arrow key (alone) the result is that you move to the adjacent cell to the right, instead of moving to the adjacent cell to the left. There is direction there. This is also part of the reason for the existence of the Cursor Movement setting (Logical vs Visual) regarding the movement through text. This is not that case. We are talking about the width of a column, and anything else is just a consequence of natural physics. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
