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Welcome Dan Williams, new LibreOffice Developer focusing on UI/UX ๐Ÿฅณ (sh.itjust.works)
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https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/12/04/welcome-dan-williams-new-libreoffice-developer-focusing-on-ui-ux/

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[โ€“] 6 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Please fix horizontal scrolling in Calc first ๐Ÿ˜ฉ it's a PITA to work with sheets that have wide columns.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 10 months ago (4 children)

    It is so for anything having tables, from what I see.
    Dev has to consider whether snapping is a better idea or smooth scrolling is and toolkits seem to have snapping as the default.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Well, the biggest comparison I can draw is Excel and it does not have this visual limitation. Make it a toggle if people prefer, but sometimes a column is wider than your screen width, which renders the sheet unusable.

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  • [โ€“] 0 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    I don't really remember enough about Excel anymore, but considering that I don't remember having that problem despite how many years I used it, I guess that is the case with it.

    And yes, a toggle would be nice. In fact, a few months ago, I was thinking of putting up a request over to the LibreOffice team, when I was working on the table view of another OSS project, but then procrastinated until I forgot. Honestly, if there are enough people that have a problem with this little thingy, it'd be better off fixed. Specially in the Qt implementation at least, it really is just a boolean toggle even for the developer.

    Would you like to put up a bug report to them?

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    This has been reported many times over many years. From what I understand it's not easy to fix.

    2011:

    https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40917

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