Bug 170149 - Mouse click on an entry in the macOS "press-and-hold" popup window fails to insert character
Summary: Mouse click on an entry in the macOS "press-and-hold" popup window fails to i...
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version:
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25.8.4.2 release
Hardware: All macOS (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Patrick (volunteer)
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Reported: 2025-12-27 21:14 UTC by Patrick (volunteer)
Modified: 2025-12-29 15:49 UTC (History)
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Description Patrick (volunteer) 2025-12-27 21:14:46 UTC
When pressing and holding a single character macOS will display a native input method popup window with a list of accented characters.

Clicking on any of accented characters, however, does *not* replace the original character and just silently fails in Writer and Impress but not in Calc.

Current workaround is to press an accepted character's matching number.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open a new, empty Writer document
2. Press and hold the "a" key and wait for the native input method popup window to appear
3. Click on any of the accented characters in the popup window

Expected result: the clicked accented character should overwrite the "a" input in step 2 above.

Actual result: the "a" is *not* overwritten.
Comment 1 Patrick (volunteer) 2025-12-27 21:16:21 UTC
Assigning to myself. Work-in-progress patch is below:

https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/196239