GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 478717
Improve Selection cursors
Last modified: 2018-05-22 13:23:18 UTC
If I perform a multiple selection only the last selected part is shown selected (see attached image) this is with today's svn on an amd64 machine
Created attachment 95917 [details] screenshot showing the picture
I see the background changed for selected cells. Isn't that good enough?
Seeing the background changed would be good enough for me...but I only see the background changing in the column and row headers not in the cells so it is impossible to tell whether I have a selection consisting of four parts or two. hmm interesting. On my machine at work all the cells were the same colour and that's where I made the screenshot. And the screenshot on that machine did not show any different background. Here at home I do indeed see the changed background even in the screenshot attached. I will need to check how many colours I am seeing on the machine at work but my background is a photograph and so I should have noticed anything strange going on there.
The contrast is indeed very, very low for this.
It turns out that on my monitor (a ViewSonic 20" LCD) the grey doesn't sho up (not enough contrast. I have tried some other monitors and on some it is of course just fine. I do think we need some more prominent indicator.
http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/archive/2008/04/22/improving-sheet-selection.aspx Had some interesting ideas. The notion of displaying the size bounds seems very useful. Along with the possibility of supporting multiple colours.
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