https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160324
Bug ID: 160324 Summary: Column resize handle touch-target too small Product: LibreOffice Version: 24.2.1.2 release Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) OS: Windows (All) Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: medium Component: Calc Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org Reporter: jon.macca...@gmail.com Description: The column resize handle touch target is only 1-2px wide, leaving little margin for targeting when resizing the column. While recovering from a mild wrist injury, resizing a column became a frustrating and needlessly long exercise for me. By comparison, Google Sheets and Excel use wider touch-targets (around 4-8px) and the difference in ease of use is night and day. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a new document 2. Hover the right edge of column header A 3. Hold when the cursor changes to EW-RESIZE 4. Move the pointer slightly Actual Results: Accurately targeting the column resize handle requires very precise fine motor control. When targeting the handle, it is extremely easy to under- or over-shoot the target, requiring deliberate pixel-by-pixel pointer movements to reacquire the target. A slight movement of the pointer (of the kind that could be expected from drift of normal usage) results in immediate loss of the target. Expected Results: Targeting the column resize handle should not be a cognitively demanding task for someone of average or mildly impaired fine motor control. Moving onto and off the column resize handle should transition the cursor to EW-RESIZE and NORMAL roughly in step with the user's intent. No pixel-perfect fiddling should be required to target the handle. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: Yes Additional Info: Version: 24.2.1.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: db4def46b0453cc22e2d0305797cf981b68ef5ac CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19045; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US Calc: threaded A small demo has been created to demonstrate the effect of the touch target width on usability here: https://codepen.io/meat-circuit/pen/ZEZBjrJ. The resize handle width can be adjusted dynamically to get a feel for resizing. Setting it to 1px reproduces the experience in LibreOffice, while a setting of 6px is close to the feel of Google Sheets. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.