Hi Heiko,
you wrote this:
+ necessary if the app DPI differs from the screen DPI (Csongor)
but I didn't say this.
I meant in my comment that this feature would be useful when you want to see more information than the resolution of your screen (and your eyes) allows. You could magnify the region of interest (ROI) while you still can see the big picture as well.
I created a mimicking screenshot
in GIMP how I think it should look:
https://i.ibb.co/WW0WsxC/magnifier-sample.png
Disclaimer: for the screenshot, I used the Spherize filter of GIMP, which is geometrically not identical to a magnifier lens but shows well enough what I would like to see.
In order to not hide anything from the underlying screen, it is essential that the center of the circle shows things larger than their original size but at the same time, around the edge, things look smaller. This way, the magnifier doesn't cover anything, just shows some distortion around the edges.
A realistic lens effect can be
seen here: https://youtu.be/XtCW-axRJV8?t=271
I think this would be such a useful feature that it should be supported at operating system level.
Csongor
Present: Sahil, Eyal, Heiko
Comments: Mike, Justin, Stephane, Stuart, Cor
Tickets/Topics
(Suggested bump-up (Eyal):
* Cell selecting fat border looks ugly especially if you selected some
cell range, it also can block content in other cells
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161709
+ Rafael: Made commits to improve the cosmetic situation, consider
the bug fixed.
+ Rafael: This was done to resolve 143733, which requested the
rectangle not cover the active cell
+ Heiko: Suggest accepting the current situation for now
+ Eyal: Serious degradation of UX - text in surrounding cells
partially hidden, can make one value appear as another due
to hiding.
+ Eyal: Suggest back-out of changes to before 143733, for now, and
reconsideration. Must fix this for 24.8 release.
+ Eyal, Mihai, Rafael, Roman, flm2: Excel active cell rectangle looks
nice
=> please discuss at Bugzilla or the mailinglists (Heiko)
)
* No option to automatically indent multiline list entries to align
with numbering followed by space
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156071
+ line up *subsequent lines* of each list entry, see c12
+ no good example for the necessity (Mike, Cor, Heiko)
+ mandatory to have this as cross-platform feature (Justin, Cor)
+ A tab is, in the general sense, an inherently flawed solution,
because once your number exceeds the tab width - you'll overflow
and the alignment will be messed up (Eyal)
+ Request is reasonable (Eyal):
+ Follows a different aesthetic principle: Fixed amount of space
between number and paragraph content v-start rather than uniform
content v-start across all paragraphs
+ Should be implemented via a paragraph feature to move all lines
further in to respect the maximum constraints on each individual
line (e.g. numbering, wrapping around frames etc.), ensuring
that the paragraph's v-start is uniform across all lines, without
having to set it explicitly using indentation and/or tabs.
+ Should be usable even without numbering being active (an aspect
of a paragraph's style)
+ requires probably also to start a list from any number (Heiko)
+ MSO does exactly the same as we do (Heiko)
=> comment
* Tab stop of list contents increases then decreases in default
Roman numeral list, looking messy
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162133
+ Microsoft Office forces right alignment for Roman numerals, often
with horrible results (Justin)
+ right-alignment is not the right solution => WF (Stephane, Cor)
=> solution follows bug 156071
* PIVOTTABLE: Formating Pivot Tables
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51732
+ double-click brings up the Data Field dialog currently, add
a context menu (Stephane. Cor)
+ perhaps more obvious via push button? (Sahil)
=> provide a context menu for the functions
* Magnifier Tool for a quick overview and spot zoom into a document
in Multiple-page view
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162101
+ magnifier is always just a click away, eg. Win + +/- on KDE
+ bug it does not render again with a higher resolution (Heiko)
+ "magnifier" would be an excellent feature *in general* (Stuart, Cor)
+ necessary if the app DPI differs from the screen DPI (Csongor)
+ duplicates / relates to bug 101646 "UI option "Scaling" was removed"
with a lot duplicates itself
+ weird relation to multi-page view; suggest to do with low
priority (Eyal)
=> comment
