https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135790
Bug ID: 135790
Summary: "%MOD1" appears in LO Tip of the Day #41
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 7.0.0.3 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
OS: Linux (All)
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: minor
Priority: medium
Component: UI
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Reporter: i...@skierpage.com
Created attachment 164340
--> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=164340&action=edit
%MOD1 appears in Tip of the Day 41
I started my LibreOffice flatpak (7.0.0.3
8061b3e9204bef6b321a21033174034a5e2ea88e) and Tip of the Day 41/222 appeared:
Need to insert the date in a spreadsheet cell? Type Ctrl+; or Shift+%MOD1+;
to insert the time.
"Ctrl" should appear in place of %MOD1 on Windows and Linux.
Expected result:
Need to insert the date in a spreadsheet cell? Press Ctrl+; . Press
Shift+Ctrl+; to insert the time.
(or just mention Calc's Insert menu items for this, see below)
Cause of the bug:
The text comes from
https://github.com/LibreOffice/core/blob/18c97df0dcb348134d3ceac022a799338e02d7f5/cui/inc/tipoftheday.hrc#L88
:
{ NC_("RID_CUI_TIPOFTHEDAY", "Need to insert the date in a spreadsheet
cell? Type %MOD1+; or Shift+%MOD1+; to insert the time."), "",
"tipoftheday_c.png"},
I think the bug lies in TipOfTheDayDialog::UpdateTip() in
https://github.com/LibreOffice/core/blob/master/cui/source/dialogs/tipofthedaydlg.cxx#L82
which performs a single replace of "%MOD1" leaving the second variable
unchanged. It would have to replace %MOD1 in a loop or use a replaceAtMultiple
function or regexp.
Additional info:
This specific tip is still really hard to read because semicolon is also
punctuation organizing a sentence; I changed the phrasing above under "Expected
result" to clarify. Ideally you'd use CSS that draws keycaps e.g.
https://jsfiddle.net/7rg5pLs8/1/ . That might address bug 130979, which talks
of the difficulty of localizing the modifier key's name. There's also a mail
thread about problems with this tip for keyboard layouts that don't have a
dedicated semicolon key,
https://www.mail-archive.com/l10n@global.libreoffice.org/msg12782.html
Maybe it's easier if this Tip of the Day tells users
Use the menu items Insert > Date and Insert > Time to insert the current date
or time into a spreadsheet
since these menu items indicate the keyboard shortcut. Then there's no mention
of %MOD1 or Ctrl and all three problems go away! 😉
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