GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 135966
right clik on a combo box should select it
Last modified: 2006-12-17 20:18:42 UTC
Right clik on a combo box should select it to allow to delete it. The only way to select a combo box is to click on the outline. But this method does not work if the combo box has a too small height. I will attach a file with such a combo box. Try to select and delete this combo box...
Created attachment 25045 [details] An example file
I don't see any combo box in that file. Anyway, right-clicking ought to bring up a context menu with several entries, one of them being "delete".
OK, my file was empty. It is in fact another bug of gnumeric: it does not save combo boxes in its own format ! I will post another file produced by excel. Try to delete the combo box that it in this file. The only way that I have seen is to delete the cell to which the combo box is attached. (but it is not easy to know to which cell it is attached !) Right-click does not work on a combo box, because it brings up a menu for the text entry widget, intended for the text inside the widget: - cut - copy - paste - delete - select all - input methods - insert unicode control character
Created attachment 25111 [details] the .xls file
My mistake: it is in fact possible the bring up the context menu to delete the combo box. But you have to right-click exactly at the border of it. What is counter-intuitive is that: - if you left-click on the same area (the border), you don't select the widget - the pointer does not change when you are on the border. Changing it to an arrow would help understand you can select it when you are on this area.
I've adjusted things so that right click always brings up the context menu. Although that still needs to be implene