With Character picker available for some textboxes, double-clicking a character just closes the dialog without inserting that character.
not enough information, marking as NEEDINFO. "some textboxes" "double clicking a character" Not sure what "some" means, or what character. I did this: 1. Open writer 2. Insert -> Special Character 3. Double clicked on U+00BE(190) Result was the correct symbol being placed. It makes it very hard for QA not to waste time when reproducible steps are not provided, please keep this in mind going forward with your bug reporting
Actually it is in a context menu EACH UI TEXTBOX (including the one in the Find Toolbar). Actually, QA not knowing their product wastes USERS' time which is much worse.
Not providing detailed steps wastes QA time
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Confirmed the problem un Ubuntu 13.04, LibO 4.0.0 following these steps: 1.- Open Writer 2.- Right-click in the Font combobox and select “Special Character…” 3.- The Special Character dialog will appear, double-click in a character 4.- The dialog will close immediately, and the character won’t be inserted in the combobox. (But as Urmas points out before his rant, this problem exists in every text field, try the Find toolbar, the Find & Replace dialog, the Character dialog…)
(Note that, if you click OK instead of double-clicking the character, it is inserted in the field correctly.)
Thanks Fitoschido :) Did you test using master? Was this a problem with older versions as well?
Nope Joel, I tested 4.0.0.2, which is currently in the Ubuntu Raring repos. And I don’t know when this problem appeared, I’ve never needed to insert a special character in a field by right-clicking on it :-P (I just use Ctrl+Shift+U+<unicode number>+Enter).
Ivan Timofeev committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=3fd01d00c2299aed55d11d59d3b6fdabbab8404b fdo#60896: Double click in Special Characters picker inserts nothing 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.