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 87477 - Please apply "singleton" logic when pasting into a selected row.
Please apply "singleton" logic when pasting into a selected row.
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: Gnumeric
Classification: Applications
Component: GUI
git master
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: Jody Goldberg
Jody Goldberg
: 166651 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-07-06 05:23 UTC by Miles Lane
Modified: 2005-04-01 03:55 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description Miles Lane 2002-07-06 05:23:26 UTC
Problem:

There are situations where a user wants to paste multiple rows,
but is unable to do it intuitively.

Repro:

Open a spreadsheet
Click and hold on the row 1 "button" at the left end of the row.
Drag to select rows 1 through 5.
Right-mouseclick -> Copy
Click on the row 10 "button" at the left end of row 10 (this selects row 10).
Right-mouseclick -> Paste.

Result:

    Unable to paste : destination does not have an even multiple 
    of source rows (1 vs 3)
    Try selecting a single cell or an area of the same shape and size.

Expect:

Either we should simply paste the data, as requested, overwriting
previous data, or perhaps we should prompt the user with a warning
saying:  "Do you really want to overwrite the current data?"
If we implemented the warning, we could include an opt-out checkbox
to allow the user to have that warning suppressed in the future 
and simply perform the data overwrite.

Note:  I would expect this to work as well, if I had performed 
a Cut -> Paste rather than a Copy -> Paste.

Also, if we implement this feature, we'd obviously do it for 
columns as well as rows.
Comment 1 Jody Goldberg 2005-03-31 05:06:17 UTC
Time to clean up some old bugs.

Use a simplified tiling algorithm.
Comment 2 Jody Goldberg 2005-04-01 03:55:28 UTC
*** Bug 166651 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***