Fields are shown with grey background in presentation/view mode

[kossebau]

WebODF tag 0.5.3

Fields in slides and documents are shown with grey background in non-editing mode, which seems not right to me. It should be controllable in some way, and by default turned off.

[peitschie]

Discussed proposal on IRC was to extract a gui.OdfFieldView and move the field highlighting code out to that. This would allow interested parties to construct the view in order to enable field highlighting.

Any counter-proposals? :-)

[adityab]

gui.OdfFieldView makes sense.

Behavior-wise, I would prefer a grey background only on hovering over fields - as is done in the user fields invoice demo - and that too only in editing mode. LO's implementation looks ugly.

[kossebau]

So the idea would be that fields by default do not get any special rendering and their content is simply rendered as if it was normal text. Only those who are interested in special rendering would add another rendering view for them, like done with annotations, but not exactly. Do I get that correctly?
This also would allow alternative views/renderers, to cover UX/UI as @adityab proposed (where I would rather favour LO's, at least for consistency).

[peitschie]

@kossebau yep. That is an accurate summary. My default would be to preserve LO behaviour... but if it's easy I'd be willing to add a feature flag for @adityab