Re: text frame selection

I thought I had fixed this with 
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116342 but maybe I 
was missing something...

Regards
Samuel


Am 26.10.2018 um 10:45 schrieb Michael Meeks:
> Hi Armin,
>
>         Is there a good reason why - when you are in a slide - and you click
> inside a text box to edit; the frame is not selected such that you
> cannot see it, or grab its handles, or resize / move it around easily ?
> even being aware it is there is not trivial.
>
>         The behavior here is somewhat unexpected and unfamiliar to me. Of
> course after some years of suffering (a bit at least) - I happen to know
> that in order to re-position the text it is necessary to click around
> above the top-most text - trying to guess where the hit-area is in order
> to select the text frame, and then you can move it around but ... ;-)
> Empirically this is not true for most people - some are not good at
> guessing the location of invisible frames.
>
>         Is there any particularly good reason for that ? I hate to see
> customers complain about this ;-) and presumably the fix is not terribly
> hard, but ... I thought you might have some insight into the historic
> thinking here ! =)
>
>         Thanks !
>
>                 Michael.