ulterno comments on Welcome Dan Williams, new LibreOffice Developer focusing on UI/UX 🥳

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 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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[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 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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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 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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[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 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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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 point 10 months ago*

Hmm. Well, I guess they are not using the Qt Widgets TableView then.
Perhaps I'll take a look too, next time I feel like.