[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 65231] EDITING: Enable to change the color for record changes without loosing the differentiation between authors

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--- Comment #4 from Coucouf <***@free.fr> ---
Any news about this issue?
This change would be welcome.

It’s disappointing not to be able to change what looks like a simple thing from
a user’s perspective.

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--- Comment #5 from RMonk <***@netscape.net> ---
Still hoping for news on this. It needs fixing by allowing a user to select
their own edit colour or by at least changing the default colours so that the
first few are all properly visible and differentiated colours in use, not light
and not too similar. Removing the yellow/brown initial default colour would be
a great start ... and simple given that more involved changes are obviously
difficult given the years of no change on this bug.

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--- Comment #6 from ***@yahoo.co.uk ---
Echo previous two comments... it's truly undermining the usefulness of this
feature when different colours are used each time. In addition to some of the
colours used (e.g. light brown) being quite hard on the eyes, much much more
important is that it is natural to the human brain to have consistency: Ms A's
stuff is using dark blue for her changes; Mr B is using dark red; Dr C is using
dark green...

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--- Comment #7 from RonnyC <***@gmx.de> ---
I completely agree with '***@yahoo.co.uk'. This feature would be a major
enhancement for all people collaborating and writing documents together.

Just to repeat with different word what 'mrodent' said:
It would be nice to have a menu to change the tracking colour for the first,
second, third ... author myself. Maybe one could handle colours for specific
authors (identified by name and than in the changes even have the same colour
in all edited documents).

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--- Comment #8 from Andrew <***@fastmail.fm> ---
I add my support for this enhancement request.

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CaroZ <***@gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #9 from CaroZ <***@gmail.com> ---
I support this request, it would be great

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--- Comment #10 from Luka Oman <***@bubi.si> ---
Any hope this 4 years old request to see the light of day? It would make our
lives more colorful, ehm, easier.

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--- Comment #11 from Dan Carr <***@yahoo.com> ---
I would like to add my endorsement for this change. The colors selected for
tracking changes are hard to view. To work around this issue, I was forced to
load a multi-page document into a table and use one column to identify changes
which were sometimes a single character used to correct a misspelling and a
third column to identify author.

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--- Comment #12 from Dan Carr <***@yahoo.com> ---
Sorry for the comment:
This item has been fixed:
Go to Tools-Options-Writer-Changes and you may select from the color palate
for each type of change.

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Thomas Lendo <***@gmail.com> changed:

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Status|NEW |RESOLVED
Resolution|--- |WORKSFORME

--- Comment #13 from Thomas Lendo <***@gmail.com> ---
Closing the bug as RESOLVED WORKSFORME according to comment 12.

If someone knows the patch that fixed this issue, please comment and change the
status to RESOLVED FIXED.

If this bug isn't fixed completely, please reopen with status NEW.

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jan <***@seznam.cz> changed:

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--- Comment #14 from jan <***@seznam.cz> ---
Request was not fixed at all - the title specifically says that the fix should
keep differentiation between authors awailable. The fix mentioned in comment
#12 doesn't provide that (applying it would cause all authors' changes to have
the same colour).

We need this a lot, the default colours are also hard to read by colorblind
people or users of flux/redshift apps (these filter blue light during
evening/night time to reduce eye strain).

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--- Comment #15 from ***@hotmail.com ---
I completely agree with this post. We use record changes a lot at work, and
this is definitely making things difficult for people to switch from MSWORD.
With LO WRITER you can change the color, but then it's the same color for all
"Authors". You can choose that each "Author" gets a different color, but the
default colors are bad. Some are difficult to read on the screen, and some
others are difficult to read on printed material, which is really frustrating.

Is there a way to make this happen faster ? give money for someone to fix this
?

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--- Comment #16 from Jim Avera <***@gmail.com> ---
Can we just change the default (first author) color to a *readable* color?

The yellow/gold color is horrible, as many people have said here and elsewhere.
Just change it to something darker and think about a proper fix later...

(I suspect that the fix we really want might break MS Word compatibility. But
just making the current algorithm use readable colors should be relatively
easy?)