Bug 143994 - "Copy version information" button in About dialog should have description label
Summary: "Copy version information" button in About dialog should have description label
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.1.5.2 release
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: needsUXEval
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Blocks: About-Dialog
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Reported: 2021-08-21 17:17 UTC by Paolo Benvenuto
Modified: 2022-09-01 06:53 UTC (History)
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Description Paolo Benvenuto 2021-08-21 17:17:10 UTC
Description:
It would be better to be able to copy it, I'm thinking in the case of a bug report

Steps to Reproduce:
1. from menu -> help -> about libreoffice
2.
3.

Actual Results:
a non-copyable text is shown

Expected Results:
a copyable text


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
thank you!
Comment 1 Ming Hua 2021-08-21 18:10:41 UTC
Is there a button after "Version:" in your Help > About LibreOffice dialog?  Press that button and the version information text will be copied to the system clipboard.
Comment 2 Paolo Benvenuto 2021-09-02 22:07:23 UTC
yes, I see the copy button.

Then, the bug would be that the button, with only an icon, isn't so much understandable.

A "copy to clipboard" text would be better
Comment 3 Ming Hua 2021-09-02 23:32:49 UTC
(In reply to Paolo Benvenuto from comment #2)
> Then, the bug would be that the button, with only an icon, isn't so much
> understandable.
It's not "only an icon", there is a tooltip that explains what it does if you hover your mouse cursor over the button.

But sure, let's change summary accordingly and see what the developers say.
Comment 4 Roman Kuznetsov 2022-08-26 09:02:31 UTC
If I remember right the button was realized without the label intentionally

Anyway let's ask UX-team
Comment 5 Heiko Tietze 2022-08-29 10:02:11 UTC
Generally, we should not clutter the UI with useless information and "Copy version number" is rather a "developer tool", easy to find anyway. But no strong objection from my side.
Comment 6 Heiko Tietze 2022-09-01 06:53:56 UTC
We discussed this topic in the design meeting. The button is intentionally icon-only to not distract and to save space. A tooltip tells the user what purpose the button has, if the copy icon is unclear. So no need to change => WF.