https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153749
Stéphane Guillou (stragu) <stephane.guil...@libreoffice.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- OS|Windows (All) |All Priority|medium |low Keywords| |needsUXEval Component|Calc |LibreOffice Summary|Calc Text Box cursor bug |Allow entering textbox edit | |mode with single click | |instead of double-click CC| |libreoffice-ux-advise@lists | |.freedesktop.org --- Comment #5 from Stéphane Guillou (stragu) <stephane.guil...@libreoffice.org> --- (In reply to golemus from comment #3) > 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. > 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. I'll let the UX team decide if this is desirable enough or not, copying them in. > [...] 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. Have you considered using comments, then? You can insert them easily with Ctrl + Alt + C, and make them always visible with View > Comments. > 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? Reports that focus on a specific issue are a lot more likely to be actioned and resolved. I am refocusing this one on "single-click to edit", and you can open a new report about default colours if you'd like that to change. Thank you! -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.