Created attachment 46947 [details] explanations of gradient tool bugs LibreOffice Draw has an interesting and useful tool "Gradients". It works almost well, but has few bugs. In attachment are explanations of this. This bug was reproduced on Libreoffice 3.3.2 and 3.4.beta5 on Mandriva 64 bit and Windows XP 32 bit
To be honest, I never used or even saw the "Gradient tool" before, so I am not sure what it should do or not. But indeed, reactions are unexpected, also with "LibreOffice 3.4.0RC1 – WIN7 Home Premium (64bit) German UI [OOO340m1 (Build:11)]". I can NOT confirm reporter's first effect from gradient-tool-problem.odg "gradient changes size even if mouse not dragged" I CAN confirm that reactions are unexpected, for example 1. open reporter's sample document 2. click rectangle with small green area on first page 3. context Menu 'Area > Gradients', modify "Vorder" to 0% <ok> 4. Select Gradient Tool from Drawing Toolbar / Effects You should see 2 control points, green one marking center of green area, yellow one more or less at 50% green / yellow, line betweeen control point approximately vertically on long green area diameter. 5. Click on yellow CP and try to move it (drag and drop) a very little distance to the green CP. Expected: CP will be moved few millimeters, green area bedomes a little smaller Actual: yellow CP moves nearby to the center, green area diameter more or less 0 (Border = 92%) 6. Try to resize green area be moving yellow CP to old position Unexpected: 50% green / eyllow does not follow yellow CP. green area keeps smaller than expected. I am pretty sure that reporter's first unexpected observation has same roots, so we should handle the problem due to new subject line and see what happens Further results coming soon!
Border between colors does not follow full way control point, and even worse, CP does not follow full way mouse pointer. Seems to be an old bug, Also see reporter's observation in OOo 3.1.1, but works in a perfect way with OOo 1.1.4
EasyHackified. Unassign myself and CC myself.
[This is an automated message.] This bug was filed before the changes to Bugzilla on 2011-10-16. Thus it started right out as NEW without ever being explicitly confirmed. The bug is changed to state NEEDINFO for this reason. To move this bug from NEEDINFO back to NEW please check if the bug still persists with the 3.5.0 beta1 or beta2 prereleases. Details on how to test the 3.5.0 beta1 can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugHunting_Session_3.5.0.-1 more detail on this bulk operation: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/RFC-Operation-Spamzilla-tp3607474p3607474.html
An EasyHack should have been checked by developers and thus is confirmed regardless of age. Moving back to NEW from NEEDINFO again. Sorry for the hassle.
Deleted "Easyhack" from summary.
adding LibreOffice developer list as CC to unresolved EasyHacks for better visibility. see e.g. http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/minutes-of-ESC-call-td4076214.html for details
Hideki Ikeda committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=03675ab4a8994cb7000fd738d1685720c8b9e584 fdo#37401 - fixed the old vector length The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Caolan McNamara committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=ef16d765306c932c49254f295f57e5853129c1ea Related: fdo#37401 adjust fix to original aCenter use The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Hideki Ikeda committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-4-3": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=383135d77867d0f2c05b4c807eb17b099604eaa1&h=libreoffice-4-3 fdo#37401 - fixed the old vector length It will be available in LibreOffice 4.3. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Hideki Ikeda committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-4-2": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=390dc4eb87637c99be37f29c630618c13ea1d0a0&h=libreoffice-4-2 fdo#37401 - fixed the old vector length It will be available in LibreOffice 4.2.6. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Migrating Whiteboard tags to Keywords: (EasyHack DifficultyInteresting SkillCpp SkillDebug TopicUi ) [NinjaEdit]
Remove LibreOffice Dev List from CC on EasyHacks (curtailing excessive email to list) [NinjaEdit]