Bug 314021

Summary:	app-office/openoffice-3.2.0 3.2.0 - Tab to cycle through AutoInput suggestions no longer works
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Chris Mansfield <chris>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Office Team <office>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	output of "emerge --info" on my x86 machine called Latitoo output of "emerge --info" on my amd64 machine called Dazzler

Description Chris Mansfield 2010-04-09 02:45:49 UTC

Apologies, but this is my first bug report - I'm not sure if this should be filed with gentoo or openoffice.org.

I've been using OpenOffice for quite a while, on 2 gentoo machines. One is an x86 laptop and the other is an amd64 desktop. Recently upgraded OpenOffice to 3.2.0 (I'm not sure what version I had before, but it was the latest unmasked version one prior to 3.2.0).

Prior to the upgrade, in the Calc (spreadsheet) app, as you start typing in a cell, it would suggest entries from cells above that one. For example, if one of the above cells contained "ape" and one contained "april", and you typed "a", it would offer to autocomplete it with "ape". Then if you hit Tab it would go to the next suggestion, "april", and so on and so forth.

Since the upgrade, the autocomplete feature (officially called AutoInput, I believe) still works, but the Tab key no longer cycles through the suggestions - it now just causes it to accept the highlighted suggestion and moves the cursor to the next cell to the right.

I have searched and searched for a setting that I can change to get this feature back and have found nothing. Am I out of luck, or is there a setting in the app I can change? Or maybe change a use flag and rebuild the package?

Thanks,
Chris

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start OpenOffice Calc. (I've tried this in both Gnome and KDE environments)
2. In Cell A1, enter "ape".
3. In Cell A2, enter "april"
4. In Cell A3, type "a", see that the autoinput suggestion is "ape".
5. Press Tab to cycle through the autoinput suggestions.
6. See that instead of seeing the next suggestion, the app has chosen the first suggestion and moved the cursor to the next cell to the right (B3).

Actual Results:
The app accepted the first autoinput suggestion and moved the cursor one cell to the right.

Expected Results:
It should have offered a different value for the autoinput suggestion.

I am using the app-office/openoffice package that gets compiled on my computer, not the precompiled binary app-office/openoffice-bin.

Comment 1 Chris Mansfield 2010-04-09 02:46:44 UTC

Created attachment 227071 [details]
output of "emerge --info" on my x86 machine called Latitoo

Comment 2 Chris Mansfield 2010-04-09 02:48:34 UTC

Created attachment 227073 [details]
output of "emerge --info" on my amd64 machine called Dazzler

Comment 3 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-07-26 22:56:08 UTC

Hello, this is mostly upstream issue so there is not much gentoo developers can do about it.

If you really want to have this behaviour fixed please open bug on http://bugs.freedesktop.org/ where the libreoffice store their bugreports as they are the ones whom should do so :)

Sorry we can't be more of assitance with the limited resources we have.