https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153749
--- Comment #3 from golemus <[email protected]> --- >To me, the current behaviour does make sense: >- A single click selects the object, and allow drag-and-dropping from anywhere >on >the from, and moving it with the arrows. If once decides to starts adding >text in >selection mode, it is naturally added at the end of existing text, a >good >default. An extra click can place the cursor wherever we want in the >text. >- Double-clicking it will place the cursor where the pointer is, and text can >be >entered there. First of all lets acknowledge that this issue is not only with Calc vs. Excel but also extends to Impress vs. Powerpoint text boxes. In Excel/Powerpoint a single click puts cursor directly where clicked. If you want to move textbox with arrow keys you have to click handle in the edge or corner. IMO the more common need should be behind single click which at least for me (and I'd imagine majority of users) is to edit the text inside the box instead of moving the box. Also majority of users probably come from MS Office and are already more used to that sort of behavior. How to implement this then? IMO there could be (at least for the next 3-5 years) a "single click textbox editing" setting somewhere under Options... menu in LibreOffice. Its default value would be "disabled" in beginning but changed to "enabled" after 2 years or so. This setting would change behavior of textboxes in Calc and Impress as described above so that single click starts to directly edit from where cursor was pressed. >We need the two modes, selection and editing, otherwise moving the text box >>with keyboard arrows would not work (important from an accessibility point of >>view). As selection is probably lesser used mode it could be enabled by clicking edges/corners or clicking inside the textbox and pressing ESC to get from editing to selection mode. >Not sure about default text box background. If one wants to have a text box >>with a solid fill, inserting a shape (e.g. rectangle) is easy enough, >although >the default format is centered. I tried it and it is not really a solution. I am using textbox as a notepad so centering text in the middle is not an option. Although when using Impress centering probably makes more sense. As you know internals of Libreoffice better could you maybe make the above suggestions "Single Click Textbox Editing" and "solid white or graywhite background as default Area... values/fills for Calc textbox" to the right discussion thread where they would get more attention? >Do you think that is sufficient and could be closed as "not a bug" ? I could sware that in addition to everything discussed until now I also witnessed a bug where there is no blinking cursor at all while I am writing text inside the text box. That would definitely be a bug as there should always be a blinking cursor (except for first letter in some exceptions) when you are writing text to an app. But I am unable to reproduce it anymore. I am 95% sure that I experienced this behavior in textbox in Libreoffice 7.3.7. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
