https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158875
Bug ID: 158875
Summary: Text Cursor (Input Caret) too thin in Writer on macOS
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 7.0.0.3 release
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Description:
Linux and Windows provide solutions to make the text cursor in writer thicker.
This feature is essential for people with vision impairment.
In Linux, you can edit the file ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css and insert the
following line:
* { -GtkWidget-cursor-aspect-ratio: 0.2; }
For me, a value like 0.2 works fine. You can play around with it until it fits
your needs.
In Windows, you can go to
Start > Settings > Ease of Access > Text cursor > Change text cursor thickness
This setting works system wide.
In macOS, there is absolutely no way to change the text cursor thickness system
wide unless it is provided by the app itself. Some apps do, some don´t.
LibreOffice unfortunately doesn´t and never did.
For me, as a parially sighted person and most of the time working with macOS,
every version of LO starting with 7.x isn´t accessible at all just because of
the much too thin input caret in writer. I just had a look at the first beta of
LO 24.2. The text cursor even went thinner! So disappointing that people with
low vision seem to be more ignored with everey new version of LO. Accessibility
isn´t just something for people using screenreaders, folks ;-)
This task could be seen as a feature request either. But in my opinion, as the
input caret sometimes was thicker, sometimes narrower, it is a bug.
A feature I really would appreciate would be a way to individually adjust the
input caret thickness in the accessibility settings of LO.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Writer in LO 7.x or (much thinner) in 24.x and open it in LO 6.x.
2. Compare the thickness in 6.x to 24.x
3. 6.x has a much thicker input caret which can still be seen by people with
visual impairment or elderly people. In 7.0 or higher it´s getting thinner and
thinner
Actual Results:
Text cursor too thin
Expected Results:
Text cursor always sufficiently thick even for people with vision impairment. A
thickness like in 6.x would be ok. A way to adjust it individually would be
much better.
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: Yes
Additional Info:
I am using Version 6.4.7.2 (intel x64 version on M1 Macbook Pro, much more
stable than recent versions for Apple Silicon btw) although it is missing some
great features from the recent versions.
Version: 6.4.7.2
Build-ID: 639b8ac485750d5696d7590a72ef1b496725cfb5
CPU-Threads: 10; BS: Mac OS X 10.16; UI-Render: Standard; VCL: osx;
Gebietsschema: de-DE (de_DE.UTF-8); UI-Sprache: de-DE
Calc: threaded
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