Bug 142034

Summary:	Selecting (single left-click) cell enters edit mode directly when compose character on keyboard was struck beforehand
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Andrew Siplas <andrew>
Component:	Calc	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA
Severity:	normal	CC:	ilmari.lauhakangas
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.1.2.2 release
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description Andrew Siplas 2021-05-01 23:15:03 UTC

Description:
Calc, when the compose key (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key) has been pressed, will directly start editing a cell on single-click.

Reproduce:



It's not clear this is desired behavior—this occurs even long periods after compose key has been struck but not used.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Press «compose» key on keyboard (or bind to an alternate key and use that), but don't press any further key—leave OS waiting for 2nd/3rd keystroke to compose the character.
2. Single-click any cell in calc from an idle (but not read-only) state.

Actual Results:
Calc enters edit mode right away, navigating away by further click on another cell results in cell contents cleared.

Expected Results:
Editing a cell would require a double click, clicking outside the cell would *NOT* clear the contents—pending character from before-the-fact should not clear cell contents not explicitly edited by user.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes


OpenGL enabled: Yes

Additional Info:
Held the compose event until getting a further keystroke, e.g. if compose character is pending, wait for the '/' and 'c' keystrikes to make the ¢ (cent) mark, for example, and don't enter edit until complete character is received.

At least don't interpret a keystrike from 10 minutes earlier as input upon clicking a cell.

Comment 1 Buovjaga 2022-04-26 11:10:51 UTC

To make sure I got the key right, I customised it like in the instructions here:
https://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/ComposeKey

I could not reproduce your problem.

After testing with kf5, gtk3 and x11 UI backends, I noticed that only gtk3 showed an effect when I pressed the compose key. It went into edit mode in the focused cell and showed some indicator, underline and dot.

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Arch Linux 64-bit
Version: 7.4.0.0.alpha0+ / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 37613bffe4621c444e5a34678bafb2c3a875263d
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.17; UI render: default; VCL: kf5 (cairo+xcb)
Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded Jumbo
Built on 26 April 2022

Comment 2 QA Administrators 2022-10-24 03:42:36 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)

Dear Andrew Siplas,

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Comment 3 QA Administrators 2022-11-24 03:42:26 UTC

Dear Andrew Siplas,

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