Create new Drawing Right click in some place where you want insert something for buffer. Draw insert it on center. IMHO When I use mouse it should insert buffer into click position. ps. I'm on Linux
Reproducible with LO 4.4.0.0.beta1, Win 8.1. Steps Done: 1. Open WRITER 2. Draw any shape (e.g. a rectangle) 3. Open DRAW 4. Go to the WRITER document and select the shape and copy it (e.g. CTRL + C) 5. Go to the DRAW document and place the mouse cursor in any corner of the document and make a right mouse click and select PASTE Result: The shape is not pasted at the cursor position but in the middle. Note: If you copy a shape created in DRAW then this shape is pasted also not at the mouse cursor position, but also not in the middle. In this case it would be placed at the position of the copied shape.
(In reply to A (Andy) from comment #1) > Result: The shape is not pasted at the cursor position but in the middle. Where would be the cursor in Draw, apart from when you select a shape/frame or work in text ;)
First of all, the Draw internal procedure of copy/paste works as expected and takes the object's position when copied from another document. But that's not perfect when the object has coordinates out of range, e.g. origin is A0 and target A4. But anyway, never the cursor position is being used. And how should it work when the cursor is somewhere else and the paste operation is done per ctrl+v or the main menu? I would also advise against a if-then procedure that pastes at a) the source position, if available, b) the cursor position if its within the document range, or c) at the center. Copy/paste is a core function and must be crystal clear to users without any doubt what happens. So I suggest to take the object's position in respect to the page even when it is copied from a foreign app like Writer.
*** Bug 68623 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
No further input, so removing UX. While the idea sounds reasonable - and might be for mouse users, it destroys the current workflow. You copy/paste objects with their position, for example a shape at top left corner from one document into another. Using the mouse position breaks this 1:1 copy. => WFM However, some users prefer this way of interaction and I could imagine use cases with large pages where placing objects at the mouse position is useful. So introducing an additional command or an extension could solve the request.
I think this would be very useful, particularly since the object being pasted in often comes from some other source without a "current position", such as a web page, or even another Draw document, where the current document is quite different, so pasting into the exact same position just means having to zoom out, find it, copy it roughly into position, zoom in, and then finalize. Here's how to get the best of both. If the current document has not had a cursor position set by clicking on it, then paste into the "current position", whatever that is, such as the position in the source Draw document it was taken from. However, if you copy an object, then click on the destination document, that click sets the preferred position for the paste (suggest top left corner, but centre would be fine too).