OpenOffice broke: double-check before bugzilla

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Tue Feb 1 16:48:48 UTC 2005


1.1.3-3 is building now for rawhide and FC-3 updates, should be out
tomorrow or Thursday.  Only change is removal of that patch referenced
below.

Dan

On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 11:37 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 13:32 -0300, Alexandre Strube wrote:
> > Em Ter, 2005-02-01 às 10:27 -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz escreveu:
> > 
> > > This update appears finally to have fixed a display problem wherein the
> > > column headings disappeared, had artifacts, or were printed on odd parts
> > > of the screen. Hopefully the fix is complete and permanent; well done!
> > 
> > Well, this used to happen also on other openoffice versions (debian
> > specifically)
> > 
> > > However, at least one new problem have been introduced: the "paste"
> > > command now does not actually paste; instead it inserts the cells you
> > > paste, moving the rest of the cells in that column down. This is a
> > > massive pain and really interferes with getting *any* work done. Now,
> > > Edit->Paste Special works fine so I'm stuck using only that... but the
> > > other 30 people in my office whom I converted to OOo are screaming
> > > bloody murder.
> > 
> > This scares me. It's better leave colum weirdness than removing paste
> > funtionality.
> 
> Please see Bug #146580:
> 
> --- Comment #1 From Dan Williams
> confirmed, this was caused by an upstream ooo-build patch added by
> Novell that we'll have to disable.
> 
> --- Comment #2 From Dan Williams
> Specific changelog entry is:
> 
> 2005-01-27  Michael Meeks  <michael.meeks at novell.com>
> 
> 	* patches/OOO_1_1_4/apply, patches/OOO_1_1_3/apply:
> 	disable sc-paste-insert-rows.diff, very odd / unexpected
> 	behavior hurting users.
> 
> Dan
> 




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