Bug 128291 - Formula option not activated
Summary: Formula option not activated
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
6.3.2.2 release
Hardware: All Linux (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Reported: 2019-10-21 10:44 UTC by ricky.tigg
Modified: 2019-11-19 16:01 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Illustration of option avaibility (8.97 KB, image/png)
2019-10-21 10:45 UTC, ricky.tigg 		Details
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Description ricky.tigg 2019-10-21 10:44:17 UTC 
Description:
Formula option not activated thus not available for selection.

Steps to Reproduce:
Select in menu Insert - Object - Formula

Actual Results:
Formula is greyed out, thus formulae cannot be inserted documents.

Expected Results:
This menu option activated.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
Version: 6.3.2.2; Build ID: 6.3.2.2-1.fc31; CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 5.3; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 ricky.tigg 2019-10-21 10:45:57 UTC 
Created attachment 155187 [details]
Illustration of option avaibility
Comment 2 Dieter 2019-10-21 10:49:13 UTC 
Can't reproduce with

Version: 6.4.0.0.alpha0+ (x64)
Build ID: 758516295e5f69393bd78bb4af6e7214d48ece0b
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 18362; UI render: GL; VCL: win; 
Locale: de-DE (de_DE); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded

and also not with

Version: 6.3.3.1 (x64)
Build-ID: f41f4c7f9507aeca13cb9df51f34d80e8ba30a99
CPU-Threads: 4; BS: Windows 10.0; UI-Render: Standard; VCL: win; 
Gebietsschema: de-DE (de_DE); UI-Sprache: de-DE
Calc: threaded

To be certain the reported issue is not related to corruption in the user profile, could you please reset your Libreoffice profile (https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile) and re-test?

I have set the bug's status to 'NEEDINFO'. Please change it back to 'UNCONFIRMED' if the issue is still present
Comment 3 ricky.tigg 2019-10-21 12:18:47 UTC 
Problem persisted under safe mode.
Comment 4 Xisco Faulí 2019-10-22 09:43:21 UTC 
I can't reproduce it in

Version: 6.4.0.0.alpha1+
Build ID: de4839e66d3d195315729b95cc144cdab96b6e74
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; 
Locale: ca-ES (ca_ES.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded

Could you please try to reproduce it with the latest version of LibreOffice
from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/ ?
I have set the bug's status to 'NEEDINFO'. Please change it back to
'UNCONFIRMED' if the bug is still present in the latest version.
Comment 5 ricky.tigg 2019-10-22 10:36:23 UTC 
Wasn't it the last version "Build ID: 6.3.2.2[...]" which Fedora supplied, since available version for download at mentioned link is as much old.
Comment 6 ricky.tigg 2019-10-30 11:53:19 UTC 
Version: 6.3.2.2 (x64); Build ID: 98b30e735bda24bc04ab42594c85f7fd8be07b9c; CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0; UI render: GL; VCL: win; Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI); UI-Language: en-US; Calc: threaded

Formula option activated under that environment.
Comment 7 ricky.tigg 2019-10-31 13:55:16 UTC 
Thanks to a Red Hat developer knowledge which solved issue reported at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1766990, present issue is solved.
Comment 8 Dieter 2019-10-31 14:13:58 UTC 
(In reply to ricky.tigg from comment #7)
> Thanks to a Red Hat developer knowledge which solved issue reported at
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1766990, present issue is solved.

=> RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Comment 9 Xisco Faulí 2019-10-31 14:33:03 UTC 
This is the commit: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=fa83e00dd7bc04d67e025509599a1038702b4ab7

Kudos to Caolán for fixing this issue