Your message dated Sat, 30 Sep 2017 19:12:55 +0200 with message-id <20170930171254.oi52axwkuoyl5x56@central> and subject line libreoffice-calc: /usr/bin/localc: typing goes to the wrong oocalc window, instead of the one with focus has caused the Debian Bug report #652878, regarding libreoffice-calc: /usr/bin/localc: typing goes to the wrong oocalc window, instead of the one with focus to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: libreoffice-calc Version: 1:3.4.4-2 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/localc Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? I opened two spreadsheets, using separate oocalc commands. One spreadsheet for editing, the other I just wanted to look at. I am not supposed to change the latter one at all, just use it as a template for building the new spreadsheet. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? I clicked a cell with a formula in the template spreadsheet. NOT for copy/paste, because the new formula has to be similar, but NOT a copy. Then I gave the other spreadsheet keyboard focus, in order to type the formula there (with all sorts of clever changes, which is why copy/paste was not appropriate.) Problem 1: with focus gone from the first spreadsheet, the formula in the selected cell was no longer displayed, so I could not read it! This was easily worked around. I clicked the cell again, and this time I also clicked the formula itself, placing the cursor there. I had no intention to actually edit that formula, just make it stay visible so I could work on the other spreadsheet. Then I moved the mouse to the other spreadsheet, and my window manager (icewm) gave the other spreadsheet focus. I clicked in the cell where I wanted to write, and got worried. No cursor appeared! And when I typed anyway, nothing happened there. Instead, the text appeared in the formula box in the template spreadsheet, ruining the existing formula! * What was the outcome of this action? Nothing happened to the spreadsheet with keyboard focus, instead the template spreadsheet without focus got its formula destroyed. * What outcome did you expect instead? I expected my writing to go into the spreadsheet that actaully had keyboard focus (indicated by window manager),the spreadsheet I even had clicked on. Not only is this useless - I get locked into a situation where I can't type where I want, without loosing view of the text I want to read. Much worse: this is a gross breach of user interface expectations. Typing ALWAYS goes into the window that the window manager gives focus to. Always - no exceptions! There is no such problem if I open the template spreadsheet in gnumeric. When I then type in the new spreadsheet, text appear where it should - in the NEW spreadsheet. Typing does NOT make a mess in the gnumeric window that doesn't have focus. This is rather obvious - one window has focus and have no "secret" communication with the other process. And it should work in _exactly the same way_ when using two oocalc windows. The fact that oocalc handles both windows with a single process, should NOT cause such mixups. Using a single process may allow for easier copying between sheets, and save some memory. That is fine. But keyboard focus must work perfectly. One window may be in the middle of something special when I swithc away from it. It may, for example, be in the middle of editing a formula. But that should not affect the other window at all. In this respect, they should be as separate as windows belonging to different processes. Similiarly - If I switch away from an ocalc formula to type in this letter, then typing really happens in this letter and not in the abandoned oocalc window. Same should happen if the window I switch to happens to be another oocalc window. Users does not expect unusual keyboard focus arrangements between separate oocalc windows - especially not when the window manager clearly indicates which window is supposed to have focus. This was a nasty surprise, but fortunately I can work around it using gnumeric instead. Others may not be so lucky, if they use features that gnumeric doesn't have. Sorry if I seem very angry - this happened while doing actual work . . . *** End of the template - remove these lines ***
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--- Begin Message ---Hello, the version used is outdated now and I can't reproduce it with 5.4.1, so, I close this bug. Regards, -- Stéphane Aulery
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