Bug#492124: apparently no way to disable blinking cursor
Package: openoffice.org-base Version: 1:2.4.0-6 Severity: normal Many people are aggravated by having to look at a blinking cursor when they are editing a document - one web page compares it to Chinese water torture. I have disabled the blinking cursor in Gnome and Firefox and in my terminal, but there appears to be no way to do it in OpenOffice. If this is true, then until there is a way, the software will be practically unusable to me and to a minority of others. This is an accessibility issue, which should be pretty easy to fix. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages openoffice.org-base depends on: ii gij [java2-runtime] 4:4.2.2-1 The GNU Java bytecode interpreter ii gij-4.1 [java2-runtime] 4.1.2-19 The GNU Java bytecode interpreter ii java-gcj-compat 1.0.77-2 Java runtime environment using GIJ ii libc6 2.7-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.3.1-4 GCC support library ii libhsqldb-java1.8.0.9-3 Java SQL database engine ii libstdc++64.3.1-4The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libstlport4.6ldbl 4.6.2-3.2 STLport C++ class library ii openoffice.org-base-core 1:2.4.0-6 OpenOffice.org office suite -- lib ii openoffice.org-core 1:2.4.0-6 OpenOffice.org office suite archit ii openoffice.org-java-common1:2.4.1-4 OpenOffice.org office suite Java s openoffice.org-base recommends no packages. Versions of packages openoffice.org-core depends on: ii fontconfig 2.6.0-1 generic font configuration library ii libc6 2.7-12GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.6.4-2 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libcurl3 7.16.4-2 Multi-protocol file transfer libra ii libdb4.6 4.6.21-10 Berkeley v4.6 Database Libraries [ ii libexpat1 2.0.1-4 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libfreetype6 2.3.7-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc11:4.3.1-4 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.4-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgstreamer-plugins-b 0.10.20-1 GStreamer libraries from the base ii libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.20-1 Core GStreamer libraries and eleme ii libgtk2.0-02.12.10-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libhunspell-1.2-0 1.2.4-2 spell checker and morphological an ii libhyphen0 2.4-2 ALTLinux hyphenation library - sha ii libice62:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libicu38 3.8.1-2 International Components for Unico ii libjpeg62 6b-14 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.10-1 OpenLDAP libraries ii libneon27 0.28.2-2 An HTTP and WebDAV client library ii libnspr4-0d4.7.1-3 NetScape Portable Runtime Library ii libnss3-1d 3.12.0~rc3-3 Network Security Service libraries ii libpam0g 0.99.7.1-6Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libpango1.0-0 1.20.2-2 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-2 X11 Session Management library ii libssl0.9.80.9.8g-10.1 SSL shared libraries ii libstdc++6 4.3.1-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libstlport4.6ldbl 4.6.2-3.2 STLport C++ class library ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library ii libxaw72:1.0.4-2 X11 Athena Widget library ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxinerama1 2:1.0.3-2 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxml22.6.32.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library ii libxrender11:0.9.4-2 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxslt1.1 1.1.24-1 XSLT processing library - runtime ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii libxtst6 2:1.0.3-1 X11 Testing -- Resource extension ii openoffice.org-common 1:2.4.0-6 OpenOffice.org office suite archit ii ttf-opensymbol 1:2.4.1-4 The OpenSymbol TrueType font ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime Versions of packages openoffice.org-base is related to: pn libmyodbc none (no description available) pn
Bug#492124: apparently no way to disable blinking cursor
reassign 492124 openoffice.org-core severity 492124 wishlist forwarded 492124 http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6071 thanks Hi, Frederik Eaton wrote: Package: openoffice.org-base Read the package description of -base again and retihnk whether that was the correct package ;-) Version: 1:2.4.0-6 Doesn't exist anymore. Severity: normal No. It's a wish - wishlist. Many people are aggravated by having to look at a blinking cursor when they are editing a document - one web page compares it to Chinese water torture. I have disabled the blinking cursor in Gnome and OMG. Torture is someting else. Firefox and in my terminal, but there appears to be no way to do it in OpenOffice. If this is true, then until there is a way, the software OpenOffice.org. will be practically unusable to me and to a minority of others. This is an accessibility issue, which should be pretty easy to fix. This is already told to the OOo authors in issue 6071 for 6 years now, but as it's assigned to requirements it can only take a few years more if at all until this is done. Regards, Rene -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#492124: apparently no way to disable blinking cursor
Hi, Rene Engelhard wrote: will be practically unusable to me and to a minority of others. This is an accessibility issue, which should be pretty easy to fix. This is already told to the OOo authors in issue 6071 for 6 years now, but as it's assigned to requirements it can only take a few years more if at all until this is done. Hmm. Discussion with upstream says me that OOo should also honour the settings you did in Gnome already. Did you install openoffice.org-gtk? Without it you don't have GTkified UI and no GTK integration. Regards, Rene -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#492124: apparently no way to disable blinking cursor
Severity: normal No. It's a wish - wishlist. If the bug makes the program unusable to some group of people, then perhaps it should be 4 important a bug which has a major effect on the usability of a package, without rendering it completely unusable to everyone. ? Many people are aggravated by having to look at a blinking cursor when they are editing a document - one web page compares it to Chinese water torture. I have disabled the blinking cursor in Gnome and OMG. Torture is someting else. The word torture, indeed, conjures up an image of something more painful than annoying. That's why I prepended the words Chinese water. According to Wikipedia, Chinese water torture was supposed to drive its victim insane with the stress of water dripping on a part of the forehead for a very long time. It doesn't sound OMG to me. For some of those who suffer from autism or epilepsy or ADHD, and can't just ignore the blinking, it must be an apt comparison. I am well aware that most people aren't bothered by it. will be practically unusable to me and to a minority of others. This is an accessibility issue, which should be pretty easy to fix. This is already told to the OOo authors in issue 6071 for 6 years now, but as it's assigned to requirements it can only take a few years more if at all until this is done. Hmm. Discussion with upstream says me that OOo should also honour the settings you did in Gnome already. Did you install openoffice.org-gtk? Without it you don't have GTkified UI and no GTK integration. Oh, thanks for letting me know. But ... I've tried installing openoffice.org-gtk-gnome, openoffice.org-gnome, and openoffice.org-gtk, and the problem persists. It doesn't look like openoffice.org is using gtk yet though. The menubar is shaded and the menus only have a black outline on the bottom and right sides. Do I need to restart something? Thank you, Frederik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#492124: apparently no way to disable blinking cursor
Hi, Frederik Eaton wrote: The word torture, indeed, conjures up an image of something more painful than annoying. That's why I prepended the words Chinese water. According to Wikipedia, Chinese water torture was supposed to drive its victim insane with the stress of water dripping on a part of the forehead for a very long time. It doesn't sound OMG to me. For It is OMG. Because it IS torture. And comparing that with a blinking cursor is insane. some of those who suffer from autism or epilepsy or ADHD, and can't just ignore the blinking, it must be an apt comparison. I am well aware that most people aren't bothered by it. Indeed, but... The problem is that you can't expect any app handling this itself. This would be insane. Hmm. Discussion with upstream says me that OOo should also honour the settings you did in Gnome already. Did you install openoffice.org-gtk? Without it you don't have GTkified UI and no GTK integration. Oh, thanks for letting me know. But ... I've tried installing openoffice.org-gtk-gnome, openoffice.org-gnome, and openoffice.org-gtk, and the problem persists. It doesn't look like openoffice.org is using gtk yet though. The menubar is shaded and the menus only have a black outline on the bottom and right sides. Do I need to restart something? That makes me think that OOo didn't detect on startup that you are under GNOME. You *are* under GNOME (or Xfce which somehow is detected as GNOME), right? Otherwise, you can try export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome before starting OOo. (or kde for KDE, where the same should work, according to upstream) Regards, Rene -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#492124: apparently no way to disable blinking cursor
Frederik Eaton wrote: The word torture, indeed, conjures up an image of something more painful than annoying. That's why I prepended the words Chinese water. According to Wikipedia, Chinese water torture was supposed to drive its victim insane with the stress of water dripping on a part of the forehead for a very long time. It doesn't sound OMG to me. For It is OMG. Because it IS torture. And comparing that with a blinking cursor is insane. The comparison was between water dripping on forehead, and cursor blinking in eyes, as I imagine you understood. If you want to suggest a better way of phrasing it, feel free to do so, but I don't see what the big deal is. I don't believe any reasonable reader thinks that the source I am quoting is arguing that people are being forced to use these applications as a form of punishment, which is how you seem to be interpreting it. The comparison was to the sensation, not the context in which the sensation is administered. some of those who suffer from autism or epilepsy or ADHD, and can't just ignore the blinking, it must be an apt comparison. I am well aware that most people aren't bothered by it. Indeed, but... The problem is that you can't expect any app handling this itself. This would be insane. Hmm. Discussion with upstream says me that OOo should also honour the settings you did in Gnome already. Did you install openoffice.org-gtk? Without it you don't have GTkified UI and no GTK integration. Oh, thanks for letting me know. But ... I've tried installing openoffice.org-gtk-gnome, openoffice.org-gnome, and openoffice.org-gtk, and the problem persists. It doesn't look like openoffice.org is using gtk yet though. The menubar is shaded and the menus only have a black outline on the bottom and right sides. Do I need to restart something? That makes me think that OOo didn't detect on startup that you are under GNOME. You *are* under GNOME (or Xfce which somehow is detected as GNOME), right? Nope, just gnome-settings-daemon so I can use gtk apps. Otherwise, you can try export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome before starting OOo. (or kde for KDE, where the same should work, according to upstream) Thanks, that works! Frederik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
