GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 789411
Multiple selections not working correctly
Last modified: 2017-10-29 19:51:45 UTC
I am running the stock 1.12.32 gnumeric on debian 9. I have an issue when trying to use the CTRL key for a multiple selection. I first select a range A. Then I hold the CTRL key and select a range B. => selection A disappears. Actually range A is still selected (you can check it by doing an operation like a chart), but it does not appear as so.
Whenever I had this problem it turned out to be a theme issue since selection A does not have a frame but it just highlighted by the colour of the cells. That highlight colours is quite subtle for some themes. Can you provide a screenshot?
Created attachment 362443 [details] .png screenshot to illustrate the problem Attached is a screenshot. I use the standard gnome theme.
According to that screenshot this is clearly a theme problem. Range A is highlighted by colouring the cells inside in the same colour as the cells in the range B and that colour appears to be the same as the non selected colour. So this is not a Gnumeric bug.
To me this seems to be essentially a reoccurence of bug #648676.
Created attachment 362475 [details] [review] Proposed patch Not sure cyan is the ideal color. Any other idea?
Looks like we used lavender in the past.
This problem has been fixed in our software repository. The fix will go into the next software release. Once that release is available, you may want to check for a software upgrade provided by your Linux distribution. Using lavender as selection background.
That code certainly looks better the old create-a-floating-entry code.