https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161777
Bug ID: 161777
Summary: Spreadsheet cell's long Input Line text is
inconvenient to read without expanding the widget
(could benefit from a tooltip)
Product: LibreOffice
Version: Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: Calc
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
# Problem statement
There are many cases where I would like to have a longer preview of the textual
contents of a cell, without having the input line opened in its "expanded"
state (because that eats a lot of space, and not all cells have enough contents
to warrant it). The only time I want to actually expand the widget is when I
need to be editing it, which is not all the time.
# Potential solution idea
When the mouse hovers the Input Line widget, there is a tooltip (at least in
the GTK3 version of LibreOffice) that only says "Input Line", which is not very
useful.
It would be great if instead of saying "Input Line", that tooltip provided a
longer preview of the contents of that cell. GtkTooltip will automatically
word-wrap long contents (of course you might want to limit to some reasonable
length, like 500-1000 characters or something like that). GtkTooltip also
supports markup, if you want to render bold and italics for example.
If you somehow want to preserve the "Input Line" widget name into the tooltip,
you could append the contents below it, with \n\n (but personally, I would not
really recommend having both; the contents are much more relevant than the
widget name, in my opinion).
Long hyperlinks could maybe be shortened (to max 25 characters or so?) within
the tooltip to provide more space for actual text contents, because hyperlinks
are not clickable within tooltips anyway.
This could probably be an EasyHack.
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Observed on:
Version: 24.2.4.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 51a6219feb6075d9a4c46691dcfe0cd9c4fff3c2
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.9; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Flatpak
Calc: threaded
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