https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134151
Bug ID: 134151
Summary: UI: Make it more difficult to accidentally enable
"track changes" feature
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 6.4.4.2 release
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: LibreOffice
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
In ask.libreoffice you'll find many (many![1]) threads in which users ask why
they are not able to delete content anymore, or pointing out that new text is
in a different color, etc. All those "problems" come from accidentally enabling
the "track changes" feature.
In all keyboards, Shift and Ctrl keys are close together, and that means that's
quite easy to, by accident, hit Ctrl-Shift-C (the default shortcut for "track
changes") instead of plain, and quite common, Ctrl-C or Shift-C. This is
specially true for compact keyboards such as those you find in laptops /
notebooks.
My suggestion is therefore to consider a change in the default shortcut for
"Track Changes" so it's more difficult to activate that feature by chance.
Perhaps a four key shortcut (it's almost impossible to hit Ctrl-Alt-Shift-C by
accident) will save a lot of people, specially new users, from a sudden
puzzling situation.
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[1] Just one of the latest threads as example:
https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/251211/how-do-i-stop-all-characters-appearing-in-wrong-font/
but seriously, this "problem" appears so often that it deserves consideration.
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