https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160290
--- Comment #5 from Jeff Fortin Tam <nekoh...@gmail.com> --- You gain some clicks, you lose some. It's a net zero at the end. For instance, your workflow requires users to do two clicks (or more) to intuitively get to the contextual menu of a comment (first a left click on the comment, then a right click on the comment; or first a right click, then realizing it doesn't work, then a left click, then a right-click). Otherwise, needing to know (and remember) that you must somehow right-click the comment's *cell* itself is not as intuitively discoverable/expected for changing the properties of a shown comment that is "right there in front of you"). Force-shown comments are like "physical" objects, they should behave as such. And it would be consistent with the rest of the application. Need proof of this principle being already applied even within LibreOffice? "Direct right-click" on an image or chart object selects & opens its context menu. It does not select the cells behind the chart/image. Yes, the more "standard expectation" / "consistent UX" I'm proposing here would require more clicks to accomplish your "select a cell behind a comment whose contents you cannot see" scenario; but do people actually (want to) do that in practice in the day-to-day? If moving/hiding the physical object out the way is "too many clicks", and you really want to still offer the ability to click-through while ignoring the visual z-ordering principle, then I believe it would make more sense for this behavior to be behind the `Alt` keyboard modifier, i.e. Alt+RightClick (which currently doesn't do anything on comments, and presumably would be a better choice than Ctrl+(Right-)Click or Shift+(Right-)Click). You could even apply that principle to images and charts too, if you want. > as a side note, you don't need to add yourself to every single report related > to Calc comments; just add yourself to the relevant meta (tdf#101216 for > example) and you will receive emails for all those reports.) Yup, I'm well acquainted with Bugzilla's features set :) however, doing so would not get me individual comment notifications from the sub-issues I care most about (that is why I subscribe to them), and I would get all the comments from SEO spammers that are posted onto the meta issue. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
