https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145744
Bug ID: 145744
Summary: Improve cell selection outline for better visibility
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 7.3.0.0.alpha1+
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Calc
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Created attachment 176321
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Sample XLSX file
When you click a cell in LO Calc, a selection outline is drawn in black to show
which cell is selected. However, when you create a file in Excel and apply
default borders (which have width of 0.75pt) the selection outline becomes
invisible in LO Calc with zoom levels 160% and above.
To reproduce:
1) Open the attached file (XLSX) and zoom in to around (160% or 180%)
2) Click anywhere inside the table; notice that it is not possible to see the
selection outline; it's very hard (or not possible at all depending on zoom
level) to tell which cell is selected.
3) Click outside and notice that LO Calc's default outline is too thin
This becomes an issue in two major situations:
1) For Excel interoperability, since borders in Excel use by default black
color and width of 0.75 pt and the selection outline becomes invisible in Calc
2) There seems to be an interest in making 0.75pt the default in Calc as well
(see comment #27 in bug 48622); hence this problem may become more noticeable
in the future;
Currently LO Calc uses hairline width (0.05 pt) so this is why the selection
outline is not a problem when using Calc's default settings at any zoom level.
To improve the situation, there are a few ideas:
1) Use a different color (f.i. the system's highlight color)
2) Increase the outline width
PS: The issue does not occur with zoom 100%... however it is very common to use
higher zoom levels and when this is done the outline becomes invisible. This is
why there's room for improvement in how the cell selection outline is handled.
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