Bug 120686 - Unselecting a text box when multiple text boxes are selected is awkward
Summary: Unselecting a text box when multiple text boxes are selected is awkward
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Impress (show other bugs)
Version:
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Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
: low minor
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Blocks: Textbox
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Reported: 2018-10-18 21:45 UTC by André Köhler
Modified: 2022-12-26 03:17 UTC (History)
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Description André Köhler 2018-10-18 21:45:37 UTC
Description:
Use case: 10 text boxes are selected and I want to unselect one of them.

When working with plain rectangles, I can simply add/remove an item to/from the selection by holding the shift key and pressing with the left mouse button on the rectangle. This works perfectly.

However, when working with text boxes, adding them to the list of selected items works as expected, but removing a text box from the selection does not work as expected. I hold the shift key and click on one of the selected text boxes. The text box is NOT unselected, instead the text inside of it is selected from the first letter to the letter under the mouse cursor.

Workaround:
In order to unselect a text box, there are two different cases:
A) If the text in the text box does not have focus, then I have to shift-click on the INVISIBLE border of the text box.
B) If the text in the text box has focus or is selected, then I have to shift-click TWICE on the INVISIBLE border of the text box. The first shift-click quits the text edit mode, the second shift-click then is like case (A).

This behavior is the same in LibreOffice Impress and Draw.

This behavior is super unintuitive. Text boxes should behave just like rectangles. Why would anybody want to edit the text of a text box while multiple items are selected?

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create two text boxes
2. Select both text boxes
3. Shift-click on one of the text boxes

Actual Results:
The text in the text box becomes editable and selected

Expected Results:
Text text box should be unselected.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No


OpenGL enabled: Yes

Additional Info:
Version: 6.1.2.1 (x64)
Build ID: 65905a128db06ba48db947242809d14d3f9a93fe
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0; UI render: GL; 
Locale: de-DE (de_DE); Calc: CL
Comment 1 Buovjaga 2018-12-25 18:23:50 UTC
(In reply to André Köhler from comment #0)
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. Create two text boxes
> 2. Select both text boxes
> 3. Shift-click on one of the text boxes
> 
> Actual Results:
> The text in the text box becomes editable and selected

Don't repro the selection, but do repro text cursor focus, if I click on the text.

Arch Linux 64-bit
Version: 6.3.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 146f98e7100ae57ced080c7d9fa028f01df99ca8
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 4.19; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3_kde5; 
Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded
Built on 20 December 2018

Win 10
LibreOffice 3.3.0
Comment 2 QA Administrators 2020-12-25 03:53:00 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 3 André Köhler 2020-12-25 16:04:53 UTC
This bug is still reproducible in the latest version:
Version: 7.0.4.2 (x64)
Build ID: dcf040e67528d9187c66b2379df5ea4407429775
CPU threads: 32; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19042; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: de-DE (de_DE); UI: en-US
Calc: CL
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2022-12-26 03:17:16 UTC
Dear André Köhler,

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