After an evaluation, GNOME has moved from Bugzilla to GitLab. Learn more about GitLab.
No new issues can be reported in GNOME Bugzilla anymore.
To report an issue in a GNOME project, go to GNOME GitLab.
Do not go to GNOME Gitlab for: Bluefish, Doxygen, GnuCash, GStreamer, java-gnome, LDTP, NetworkManager, Tomboy.
Bug 171637 - Misleading undo text when applying a rich text format
Misleading undo text when applying a rich text format
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: Gnumeric
Classification: Applications
Component: GUI
git master
Other All
: Normal minor
: ---
Assigned To: Jody Goldberg
Jody Goldberg
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-03-25 20:55 UTC by Andreas J. Guelzow
Modified: 2005-03-31 17:41 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Andreas J. Guelzow 2005-03-25 20:55:42 UTC 
Version details: 1.4.2

Type: Hello World  in A2
Change row height of row 2
Change the word World in A2 to bold

now have a look at the undo text: The text for the style change to bold reads
"Typing Hello World in A2". This is misleading.

I haven't tried this with cvs HEAD.
Comment 1 Morten Welinder 2005-03-29 03:24:18 UTC 
Misleading, but fairly accurate given that we don't actually keep track of the
editing process.  Just starting an edit and hitting return will give the same
result.

I guess we could be more vague and say something like "changed the content of
cell A2" but I don't know who would be helped by that.

One thing that actually would help would be to bold-face the text in the undo
part also, but I am not sure we're in a position to do that.  (And we certainly
would not want to for font-size changes, etc.)
Comment 2 Andreas J. Guelzow 2005-03-29 05:30:45 UTC 
I realize this is fairly accurate from a programmer perspective, but quite
incorrect from a user perspective. 

In fact it is in my opinion pretty bad that we create an undo item just for
starting an edit and hitting return.
Comment 3 Morten Welinder 2005-03-31 17:41:04 UTC 
Fixed in cvs.