https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163512

--- Comment #18 from ady <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to FredrikL from comment #17)

> This suggested
> code change would only auto-grow width when author display is enabled, or
> when the comment has the default width and the author display is disabled.
> If the user has manually resized the width of the comment and author display
> is disabled, the dimensions the user choosed in "Show comment" mode will be
> the dimensions that is used for "hovering" as well.

I agree with that behavior, but I wonder whether the manually modified width
should also be applied to the hover status when the Author is displayed, not
only when it isn't. I understand that it could cause some potential unexpected
render if the manually set width is narrower than the Author + Date.time info,
and that is the reason to my doubt about it.

I hope the behavior can be kept as consistent as possible, instead of branching
it depending on whether the Author is shown. In particular, some devs are/were
attempting to somehow "convert" the current comments in Calc to behave as
Excel's Notes (which used to be named as Comments, until the introduction of
threaded comments). I would not like the idea of having to deal with 2
different codes depending on whether the Author and Date.time info is displayed
or not.

The current behavior of the "hover" size is strange; it disregards a manually
set width, but imitates its height. Perhaps this is what should be corrected
(i.e. try to follow both directions of a manual set), so after the size of the
box has been manually changed by the user, then the "hover" size should also
follow it, in both directions (with the consideration of the potential presence
of the Author + Date.time info, so the size might not be exactly the same in
some cases).


As for testing the proposed code, I am not a developer. It is possible that UX
devs might want to have a say about it.

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