#1006950 libreoffice: toggle options in menus are too subtle to see

Package:
libreoffice
Source:
libreoffice
Description:
office productivity suite (metapackage)
Submitter:
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Date:
2025-08-08 14:19:19 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1006950#5
Date:
2022-03-08 20:24:21 UTC
From:
To:
The dropdown menus in Libreoffice contain some entries that are toggle
buttons (items with a boolean state, which can be enabled or disabled by
clicking on them).

the toggle indicators in the standard configuration (i've never adjusted
my libreoffice configuration) are extremely difficult to see.

In the attached screenshot, you can see the "Edit" menu is open, with
the "Track Changes" submenu open.

The top two menuitems of the "Track Changes" submenu are toggle buttons.

The "Record" menuitem is a toggle button in the "off" state.

The "Show" menuitem is a toggle button in the "on" state.

Both menuitems have a light grey background.

"Show" has a 1px slightly-darker grey border around its icon to indicate
that it is in the "on" state.

My eyes aren't perfect, but they're not terrible either, and I have to
squint or get up close to the screen to be able to identify when a
toggle menuitem is on or off.  It doesn't help that when i click on the
menuitem to change its state, it also disappears immediately, so i can't
see whether something visually changes during the click.

I can only assume that this is much worse for someone with significant
vision impairment.

#1006950#12
Date:
2024-04-17 11:53:46 UTC
From:
To:
Dear submitter,

as the package libreoffice has just been removed from the Debian archive
experimental we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1069123

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.

Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.

This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org.

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Scott Kitterman (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)

#1006950#21
Date:
2025-08-07 22:12:16 UTC
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