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Is there some way to see which objects are selected in LibreOffice Draw, when selecting multiple objects with Shift+LeftClick?

Compare these screenshots from Libreoffice and Powerpoint (at slightly different state of editing):

                               

In powerpoint, it is obvious that the four circles are selected. In Libreoffice it is anyones guess which of the objects are selected. As a result I repeatedly accidentially selected something other then the circles, without any visual feedback warning me about it.

The highlight would be the same for countless combinations of selected objects; If the "b4" circle is not selected for instance, one will not notice until changing something. For trivial examples this is only a minor annoyance, but for larger numbers of objects (e.g. changing the color of all blue circles in ) it quickly becomes inconvenient.

Is it possible with Libreoffice to determine the selected objects in a manner similarly convenient as seen in Powerpoint?

Robotnik
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kdb
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In the bugreport linked by Joe P, a better workaround was brought up after I posted my examples there: Pressing "F8" to toggle "points-mode", where the highlights look pretty much like in Powerpoint.

A followup comment however disputes this method as a workaround that mixes functions that should be separate, but it is certainly at least a better workaround.

kdb
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According to bug report 74364 – EDITING: Selecting multiple draw objects should show (unselectable) handles for all objects this isn't possible.

I agree it's a usability problem.

One (laborious) workaround is to group the selected objects, then Enter group - now the non-selected objects are faded slightly. Another might be to drag the objects (clicking on one you know is in the group) and then undo.

Joe P
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