Bug 155555 - Holding down arrow key to navigate cells is unintuitive and scrolls too far
Summary: Holding down arrow key to navigate cells is unintuitive and scrolls too far
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 155455
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.5.2.2 release
Hardware: All Linux (All)
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Reported: 2023-05-30 09:06 UTC by Richard
Modified: 2023-07-07 13:46 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Richard 2023-05-30 09:06:30 UTC
Description:
Libreoffice Calc seems to take user arrow key presses a little too literally. If a user holds down an arrow key when navigating cells, it seems that Libreoffice registers every repeated key press sent by the OS and tries to apply them to the navigation. The result is unintuitive for the user. The effect is that the user presses the arrow key intending to navigate to some other cell, perhaps performing a selection, but when they release the key, navigation continues for a long time, and they end up somewhere far from where they intended to be.

To me, the expected behavior is that Libreoffice stops navigating almost immediately on release of the arrow key, so the user ends up where they expected to be.

I believe PgDn and PgUp are similarly affected.

Other users are affected, but don't know what to do about it, e.g.:

https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/my-spreadsheeet-scrolls-itself-how-do-i-stop-it/26764

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select a cell
2. Hold down the arrow key for a few seconds
3. Release the arrow key


Actual Results:
Cell navigation continues for a long time.

Expected Results:
Cell navigation stops almost immediately after releasing the arrow key.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
I don't think Excell has the same issue, or other things that scroll like web browsers etc. they all stop when you release the arrow key.
Comment 1 Joseph Walton 2023-05-30 11:45:56 UTC
Thank you for reporting the bug. I can not reproduce the bug in 7.6.0.0.alpha1+ or 7.5.3.2 on Windows 11. Which OS are you using?
Comment 2 Richard 2023-05-30 13:40:43 UTC
Linux Mint 20.3 Cinnamon
Comment 3 Richard 2023-05-30 13:45:50 UTC
It also seems my bug might be a duplicate, see #155455

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155455
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2023-05-31 03:17:00 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 5 Buovjaga 2023-07-07 13:46:32 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 155455 ***