Summary: | EDITING : Unhide of columns improvements | ||
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Product: | LibreOffice | Reporter: | Laurent Lyaudet <Laurent.Lyaudet> |
Component: | Calc | Assignee: | Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs> |
Status: | NEW --- | ||
Severity: | enhancement | CC: | heiko.tietze, philipz85, raal, stgohi-lobugs |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All | ||
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Crash report or crash signature: | Regression By: | ||
Bug Depends on: | |||
Bug Blocks: | 108364 |
Description
Laurent Lyaudet
2015-04-03 18:22:27 UTC
UX team, please take a look. I fully agree that hiding columns is weird right now. Laurent's idea would improve the interaction. Compared to Microsoft's two-pixel/two-cursor solution it is easier to handle but adds clutter. Not only columns but also rows are hidden, for instance when an auto filter is applied to the sheet. To me it makes no sense to set width/height to zero in order to "hide" something. This leads to the strange effect that filtered rows are shown after resetting their height, for instance. So why don't we fully hide col/row with no direct access to width/height? In order to unhide I'd suggest a function "show hidden row/col/cells" similar to "show non-printable characters" that temporarily displays hidden content, at best grayed out a little bit. Agree that this is a problem and the it should be easier to drag unhide columns. Excel's simple solution is to have a different mouse icon appear when it will effect the hidden column than resizing a visible one, which seems like an easy fix. When i wish to hide a column, i normally right-click on the column header and click the hide entry in the context menu, so for me, the logical means of unhiding it is selecting the column before and after the hidden column and clicking the unhide entry in the context menu. Please add keyword 'needsUXEval' and CC 'libreoffice-ux-advise@lists.freedesktop.org' if input from UX is needed. |