GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 593771
gnumeric-1.8.4 doesn't allow manual set of column width while importing fix-width text
Last modified: 2009-09-02 05:46:08 UTC
I don't know when and how it was broken. In about 0.7.3 version of gnumeric everything worked fine. The problem is in that the Gnumeric text-import dialog is broken in the part, which rules the fixed width column setting. There presents only 'auto-detect' and 'reset' buttons and no way to set column-width manually. To exclude Gentoo-specific problems first I've reported the bug in Gentoo Bugzilla: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283302
The enter-the-column-numbers method is gone and not coming back. You can still change the width of columns by right-clicking on the column in question and select widen/narrow. (At least that is how it works in 1.9.x.) You can also create new columns by double-clicking at the header where you want the break. 1.9.x, but not 1.8.x, has a red ruler through the text as a guide. I.e., you don't have to use auto-discovery. If this isn't good enough, please reopen and let us know why that is.
>1.9.x, but not 1.8.x, has a red ruler through the text as a guide. It is the thing I've searched! Again the issue with Gnumeric really is just a small interface bug. I'll think about forcing update to 1.9.x. So, it is a bug, fixed in 1.9.x. May be it will be useful (if not done in 1.9.x) to make a symbol-counter ruler under column-header line for clearety.