Bug#472960: openoffice.org-writer: Unexpected popups gets in the way and slows down work
Package: openoffice.org-writer
Version: 1:2.4.0~rc6-1
Severity: normal
I use oowriter a lot for reading documents i get in the mail (odt and doc).
When reading, oowriter will often pop up a dialog for "bullets and
numbering" or table stuff - although I did not ask for this.
These dialogs gets in the way, and much worse - they also grab focus
in some way. So pressing "page down" suddenly don't work any more,
and I have to grab the mouse just to resume scrolling.
Please, do not make the assumption that I actually *edit* the
document I have opened. Never ever pop up something not asked for
that blocks the keyboard.
Also, some items in these dialogs are superfluous because they already
exist in the main toolbar. Duplication of toolbar items just steal more
space.
Toolbars that appear automatically is perhaps of help for the novice,
but then they should behave like the main toolbar (i.e.
sit above the top edge of the document window instead of obscuring
part of it, and never grab focus.)
You may want to take a look at LyX - it has multiple toolbars and
can be set to show some of them only when needed. This happens
without taking focus or overlaying the document. The document may
have to be resized slightly to make room for the toolbar, but one can
at least keep scrolling without interruption.
Helge Hafting
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (800, 'stable'), (700, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-rc7-hh1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nb_NO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages openoffice.org-writer depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.0-1 GCC support library
ii libicu38 3.8.1-1 International Components for Unico
ii libstdc++6 4.3.0-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libwpd8c2a 0.8.14-1 Library for handling WordPerfect d
ii libwps-0.1-1 0.1.2-1 Works text file format import filt
ii libxml2 2.6.31.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library
ii openoffice.org-base-co 1:2.4.0~rc6-1 OpenOffice.org office suite -- lib
ii openoffice.org-core 1:2.4.0~rc6-1 OpenOffice.org office suite archit
ii python-uno 1:2.4.0~rc6-1 Python interface for OpenOffice.or
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-11 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages openoffice.org-writer recommends:
ii gij [java2-runtime] 4:4.3-1 The GNU Java bytecode interpreter
ii gij-4.2 [java2-runtime] 4.2.1-5 The GNU Java bytecode interpreter
ii openoffice.org-filter-binf 1:2.4.0~rc6-1 Legacy filters (e.g. StarOffice 5.
ii openoffice.org-java-common 1:2.4.0~rc6-1 OpenOffice.org office suite Java s
ii openoffice.org-writer2late 0.5-6 Writer/Calc to LaTeX/XHTML convert
ii sun-j2sdk1.6 [java2-runtim 1.6.0+update Java(TM) JDK, Standard Edition, Su
Versions of packages openoffice.org-core depends on:
ii fontconfig 2.5.0-2 generic font configuration library
ii libc6 2.7-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.4.14-1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libcurl3 7.18.0-1 Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii libdb4.6 4.6.21-6 Berkeley v4.6 Database Libraries [
ii libexpat1 1.95.8-4 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libfreetype6 2.3.5-1+b1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.0-1 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.1-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgstreamer-plugins-b 0.10.17-3 GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.17-2 Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.9-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libhyphen0 2.3.1-1 ALTLinux hyphenation library - sha
ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libicu38 3.8.1-1 International Components for Unico
ii libjpeg62 6b-14 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.7-6.1 OpenLDAP libraries
ii libneon27 0.27.2-1 An HTTP and WebDAV client library
ii libnspr4-0d 4.7.0-2 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii libnss3-1d 3.12.0~beta2-1 Network Security Service libraries
ii libpam0g 0.99.7.1-5 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpango1.0-0 1.20.0-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-1+b1 X11 Session Management library
ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8g-7 SSL shared libraries
ii libstdc++6 4.3.0-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxinerama1 2:1.0.3-1 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxml2 2.6.31.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxslt1.1 1.1.22-1 XSLT processing library - runtime
ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii libxtst6 2:1.0.3-1 X11 Testing -- Resource extension
ii openoffice.org-common 1:2.4.0~rc6-1 OpenOffice.org office suite archit
ii ttf-opensymbol 1:2.3.1-5 The OpenSymbol TrueType font
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-11 compression library - runtime
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