Bug 107637 - get focus on comment without mouse
Summary: get focus on comment without mouse
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Draw (show other bugs)
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Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
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Keywords: accessibility
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Blocks: a11y, Accessibility ImpressDraw-Comments
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Reported: 2017-05-04 17:37 UTC by Regina Henschel
Modified: 2025-03-13 13:39 UTC (History)
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Description Regina Henschel 2017-05-04 17:37:47 UTC 
Make a draw document and insert a comment. Save and reopen the document.
Now try to get focus on the comment [would have a small black border]. I'm not able to do this without mouse. [After it has focus you press space bar to open the comment so you can read or edit it.]

You can traverse normal shapes with the tab-key. But the comment is not in that cycle. Comments are not listed in Navigator, so access via Navigator is not possible. Commands for editing or open comments does not exist in any menu, so that way exists neither.

Request: Implement a way to set focus on comments without mouse.
Comment 1 Cor Nouws 2017-05-04 18:33:00 UTC 
(In reply to Regina Henschel from comment #0)
> Make a draw document and insert a comment. Save and reopen the document.
> Now try to get focus on the comment [would have a small black border]. I'm
> not able to do this without mouse. [After it has focus you press space bar
> to open the comment so you can read or edit it.]

for me, clicking directly opens the comment, that looks as a yellow box on top.. (daily build and 5.3.2.2 on Linux)
However, the comment indeed cannot get focus without a mouse.
Same in 3.3.0
Comment 2 QA Administrators 2018-05-05 02:40:52 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 3 Regina Henschel 2018-05-05 13:00:46 UTC 
The problem still exists in Version: 6.1.0.0.alpha1+ (x64)
Build ID: 5e34e3741de8aae10bf30889c227581818276186
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0; UI render: GL; 
Locale: de-DE (de_DE); Calc: CL
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2019-05-07 02:42:29 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete, obsolete_but_good)
Comment 5 Cor Nouws 2019-05-07 07:39:20 UTC 
unchanged in Version: 6.3.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 98630a0bd49bd80652145a21e4e0d0ded792b36b
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; 
TinderBox: Linux-rpm_deb-x86_64@86-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2019-05-04_04:44:35
Locale: nl-NL (nl_NL.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 6 QA Administrators 2021-05-07 03:59:03 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 7 QA Administrators 2025-03-13 03:13:23 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 8 Regina Henschel 2025-03-13 13:39:18 UTC 
The annotation-object is now included in the Navigator and accessed with the traverse by the Tab-key. So selection and moving the annotation-object is now possible without mouse. But you still cannot read the annotation and cannot edit it without using the mouse.
Using the space bar as mentioned in the original report does not bring the selected annotation-object into edit mode.
There is still no uno command available to go into edit mode.

[uno commands use term `annotation`, UI uses term `comment`.]

I have tested the current behavior in Version: 25.2.1.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: d3abf4aee5fd705e4a92bba33a32f40bc4e56f49
CPU threads: 32; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (10.0 build 26100); UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: de-DE (de_DE); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded