When a text in Impress contains a hyperlink, it is hard to select it with the mouse: If you try to position the mouse close to the start or end of the hyperlink and then click and drag, you initiate either a move operation or opening the link in the browser. If you try to position the mouse close somewhere in the middle of the hyperlink and then click (or double click), either nothing happens or you initiate opening the link in the browser. I assume this is an issue with the underlying editeng, so probably also affects Calc etc. Does not affect Writer.
see bug 98388 but I agree it's not intuitive.
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The problem is that a URL in editeng is a field - so it's treated not as a piece of text where you can navigate through with the cursor, but as a single character. Investigating how to improve things here anyway...
(In reply to Samuel Mehrbrodt (CIB) from comment #3) > Investigating how to improve things here anyway... The solution would probably be to enable some sort of inline-field-editing like we have in writer for certain types of fields.
Samuel Mehrbrodt committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/e553b3698f6d8f4f606ebe21ed9857ee09f0c057%5E%21 Related tdf#98575 Add "Edit Hyperlink" to context menu in sd It will be available in 6.4.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Samuel Mehrbrodt committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/1c6218df32838dc77da8e15dc5ce47eadad1a13f%5E%21 Related tdf#98575 Allow editing link even when URL field is not selected It will be available in 6.4.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Samuel Mehrbrodt committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/f998fc0d66c8f79f417e13e2b1103efae7a95719%5E%21 tdf#98575 Go into text edit mode when clicking on a hyperlink It will be available in 6.4.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
I think this bug can be considered fixed. I did some improvements to make selecting and editing a link with the mouse easier. To have the same experience as in Writer, we need some sort of inline editing for fields like this. That request is handled in bug 126329.
Verified Arch Linux 64-bit Version: 6.4.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: 29400185a003bfe9cdbc6e744c4a0d0e40005b03 CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.2; UI render: default; VCL: x11; Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US Calc: threaded Built on 11 July 2019 (Note: with gtk3, URL editing is currently broken due to bug 126202)