https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153527
--- Comment #24 from Mike Kaganski <mikekagan...@hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #2)
> Actually believe this is correct behavior.
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #10)
> Pretty clearly the move to 16K columns necessitated this shift.
> ...
> This is not a bug, nor a regression, as implementing 16K columns
> necessitates retraining to keep sheet manipulations efficient.
This issue is definitely a bug; what you describe about 16K is just something
technical, some implementation detail, that is not the only one way to
implement the feature, and so is not a justification for this to be defended.
Other (even if better) ways to do the same is also not a justification to keep
direct formatting *feature* broken. LibreOffice must help style users to be
most productive, but not at the cost of making basic users (relying on direct
formatting) suffer.
(In reply to robert from comment #20)
> And as for "those changes are required because we now have sheets with a
> billion cells?" and the general "we know better" attitude from the
> developers?
Sometimes it's best to keep silent, and not write things you have no clue
about, but which show how arrogant you are toward some group ("developers" in
your case), showing that you are ready to regard some people based on their
"group". Indeed, the developers appearing here - namely, the lead Calc
developer, erAck, told several times - in comment 5 ("In this case even
completely unused columns would have to be allocated to be able to attribute
all 16k columns ... [which] is expected in _this_ case here"); comment 13 and
comment 15 (discussing how to actually solve this) - that this *is* an issue,
and that it needs a fix. I myself say the same. If there are opposite opinions,
it is normal (for sane people, at least - sane people do not insist that there
only exist one true opinion, which is indeed theirs); it is the discussion that
is expected to take place in bug reports.
> Who asked for 16K rows, the 0.01% of users?
tdf#50916 has multiple duplicates and 65 people in CC list. You rarely find a
request with that many interested people. Thinking that you know what people
need most, based on your little use case; and that developers do not see the
picture much better, just because they constantly face the flow of requests
from real users having *different* needs, in another way to show how you
disregard anyone but yourself.
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