Bug#472956: openoffice.org-writer: When scrolling, a popup with "page x/y" obscures some of the text
Package: openoffice.org-writer
Version: 1:2.4.0~rc6-1
Severity: minor
When scrolling, a small popup appear saying things like
"page 5/9 (text from heading)"
This is clearly intended as a useful feature, but the placement is
such that it obscures some of the text in the middle of the window.
That is exactly where I _read_, so this is actually annoying and
counterproductive. It is especially bad when using a touchpad,
because the popup remains even when scrolling stop - it doesn't
go away unless I move the mouse around. It just sits there,
obscuring my document.
The fix should be simple - just move that popup so it doesn't
overlay the document. Consider putting it on top of the status
line or on top of the toolbar/menu/titlebar instead. (Or for
something really fancy, display 5/9 vertically on the scrollbar
slider itself. :-)
Actually, seeing that the status line already have the "page 5/9"
stuff already, consider just dropping the popup completely
as there is no need to see the information twice. That should make
this rather large program a tiny bit smaller. :-)
-- 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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