Bug 45507 - Usability: Keyboard <Enter> or <Return> for OK Buttons
Summary: Usability: Keyboard <Enter> or <Return> for OK Buttons
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version:
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3.3.4 release
Hardware: All macOS (All)
: medium enhancement
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Reported: 2012-02-01 10:09 UTC by Anastasius
Modified: 2014-12-06 13:59 UTC (History)
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Description Anastasius 2012-02-01 10:09:32 UTC
A question of usability: There are several dialogs where pressing the <Enter> or <Return> does nothing, instead of having the same effect as pressing the OK button (I am aware that this is not possible if there is multi-line text input in the dialog, so the Return key would be required for text input).

The most annoying example: Edit>Paste Special>Unformatted text. This is a very frequent command, and keyboard-only navigation would be highly desirable.

Another one that I personally use a lot is in Draw: Export as EPS - the 'EPS Export Options' cannot be simply confirmed by <Return>.

It would be great if someone could have a look at all the dialogs to see whether the 'OK on Enter' is missing. Thanks!
Comment 1 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2012-02-01 10:26:15 UTC
NOT reproducible with "LibreOffice Portable 3.3.0  - WIN7  Home Premium (64bit) German UI [OOO330m19 (Build:6) tag libreoffice-3.3.0.4]" 
NOT reproducible with "LibreOffice 3.5.0 RC2 German UI/Locale [Build-ID: e371a95-bf68a13-5a1aa2b-d3c1ae9-b938258] on German WIN7 Home Premium (64bit) 

MAC-specific? 

@Anastasius:
Can you please check with 3.4.5 (or 3.5.0RC3, what will be available soon)?
please:
- Contribute a step by step instruction containing every key press and every 
  mouse click how to reproduce your problem (and if possible how to created a 
  sample document from the scratch)
- add information 
  -- concerning your OS (Version, Distribution, Language)
  -- concerning your LibO localization (UI language, Locale setting)
  –- Libo settings that might be related to your problems 
  -- how you launch LibO and how you opened the sample document
  –- If you can contribute an OOo Issue that might be useful
  -- everything else crossing your mind after you read linked texts

May be you can test <https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/bug/> for submitting bug reports?
Comment 2 Anastasius 2012-02-01 11:47:22 UTC
Oops, sorry, correction, it is only the 'Enter' key on the numeric block that does not work, <Return> works.
So the title should be "Usability: Numeric Keyboard <Enter> for OK Buttons"

The same with LibreOffice 3.3.4 and 3.3.5, Mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.4.11.
Mac OS and LibreOffice: English versions, default settings except for customization of toolbars on 3.3.4/OS X 10.6. German keyboard.

Steps to reproduce it:
Copy text from some other window (Firefox, ...)
- New Text Document
- Edit>Paste special
- select 'unformatted text' by up/down arrows
- press <Enter> on Numeric-keypad

Strange enough, NUM-pad <Enter> does not work with the 'Format>Character' Dialog, but does work with the 'Format>Paragraph' dialog (tried the latter only on LibreO 3.3.4). This is reproducible. <Return> works for both.

By the way, the reason for being used to Num-pad Enter is its convenient location next to the mouse (just moving my right hand 2 cm to the left and hitting the large num-Enter with the thumb).

<https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/bug/>
If LibreOffice has its own site, maybe the LibreOffice web page could be updated not to direct users to bugzilla any more?
Comment 3 Anastasius 2012-02-13 09:01:04 UTC
Now entered with correct name on <https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/bug/> as "Usability: Numeric Keyboard <Enter> for OK Buttons", bug ID 46001.