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Bug 121598 - Comment dialog should be non-modal.
Comment dialog should be non-modal.
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: Gnumeric
Classification: Applications
Component: GUI
git master
Other All
: Low enhancement
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Assigned To: Jody Goldberg
Jody Goldberg
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-09-06 09:23 UTC by J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
Modified: 2018-05-22 13:04 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) 2003-09-06 09:23:01 UTC
[Originally reported as http://bugs.debian.org/208911]

From: A Costa <agcosta@gis.net>
Subject: gnumeric: Can't copy, cut or paste in "Edit Comments" text box
Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 01:39:34 -0400

Package: gnumeric
Version: 1.1.20-1
Severity: normal


Right click on a cell, click "Edit Comments", a "Cell Comment" text
box pops up.  I can type in it, but can't copy, cut, or paste any
text to, from, or within that text box.

Hope this helps...
Comment 1 J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) 2003-09-06 09:24:22 UTC
I can reproduce this with CVS HEAD. The only form of cut & paste that
works for me is pasting from the X selection buffer. No ctrl-c / ctrl-v.
Comment 2 Andreas J. Guelzow 2003-09-06 15:35:18 UTC
ctrl-c / ctrl-v doesn't work but copying and pasting via the context
menu should work.
Comment 3 J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) 2003-09-06 15:46:11 UTC
That's true, but that interface is hardly intuitive IMHO. I hadn't
realised there was a context menu to the edit comments dialog before
you mentioned it.

I haven't used cell comments before, so I guess I'm looking at them
from a somewhat fresh perspective. To me, some things about the
comments interface are a bit counterintuitive / not user friendly:
- The dialog title "Cell Comment" doesn't indicate the cell the
comment is attached to.
- The dialog is exclusionary: When editting a comment, I can't do
anything else. In particular, I can't open a comment attached to
another cell to copy/paste information from/to.
Comment 4 Jody Goldberg 2003-09-07 02:15:13 UTC
We should be able to support this in 1.3 with the new action based
apis in gtk.
Comment 5 Jon Kåre Hellan 2004-08-06 09:21:06 UTC
Ctrl+X, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V work for me (1.2.13 / Debian sid)
Comment 6 J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) 2004-08-06 10:06:11 UTC
Ah, Ctrl+X, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V now work indeed. The UI could still do with the
improvements I suggested though.
Comment 7 Jon Kåre Hellan 2005-07-14 08:13:52 UTC
Retitling
Comment 8 Wilson Mixon 2008-08-22 14:37:16 UTC
In Windows 2000, using both 1.7 and 1.9, the comment does not appear when the cell is selected. I can't find help that relates directly to comments.
Comment 9 Andreas J. Guelzow 2008-08-23 04:01:49 UTC
The comment should appear when you hover over the little triangle. Selecting the cell is not supposed to show the comment.
Comment 10 Andreas J. Guelzow 2009-04-30 16:27:56 UTC
I believe the only item left here is that the comment dialog should be non-modal or at least non-exclusive. This is more difficult than it sounds:

What happens if the name of a cell changes because rows are inserted or deleted?
Comment 11 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-22 13:04:28 UTC
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