Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 49842
right mouse-click popup menu does not appear with KDE "Focus Strictly Under Mouse" setting
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:42:26 UTC
The right mouse-click popup menu does not appear with KDE "Focus Strictly Under Mouse" setting. It works with "Focus Under Mouse" (no "strictly"). The parameter is set in "KControl", "Desktop" - "Window Behavior". -> The same problem occurs in *all* OpenOffice components (chart, presentation, draw)! (unfortunately, there's no category "all") -> OpenOffice behaviour was always a problem, when focus is strictly under mouse, also with 1.x, on PC-Linux and Sparc-Solaris. In OO 1.x. In OO 1.x the problem is not with popup menu, but with popup windows, such as stylist. When the window looses focus, stylist disappears. When there are two documents open, only one stylist is open, and that one often on the wrong position, over the wrong window. When stylist is outside of the OO window, it disappears, while trying to move with the mouse over to the stylist. Sometimes, stylist flickers, shows and hides and shows and hides ... at high frequency. sometimes, not too seldom, OO 1.x crashes, when stylist shows or hides. But flickering and crashing happens from time to time, but is not very reproducable. The source of these OO 1.x problems is probably the same as with the popup menu in OO 2beta. Suggested solution for the 1.x problem: OO must not close stylist (and similar) windows, when OO looses focus, and there should be one stylist window for each document! -> In OO 2beta, I retested the problems from 1.x. I can reproduce the following: When stylist is outside of the OO window, it disappears, while trying to move with the mouse over to the stylist. -> This problem persists also, if "Focus Under Mouse" is set, without the "Strictly"!! In general, the support for the standard UNIX "focus follows mouse" concept is very bad in OpenOffice, not only 2, but also 1.x! Actally using: OpenOffice 1.9.79-9.2 from SuSE 9.3 RPM
Reassigned to US.
@mwaeckerlin: thanks for your issue report. Admitedly a missing context menu is not acceptable; however P1 is surely inappropriate.
I think all these problems can easily be resolved with one single correection: Change: Nothing should ever be closed, only because something looses the focus! A focus change is no reason for closing anything. For the popup menu: It should only close on one of the following events: - an item was selected - the user hits "esc" key - the user clicks somewhere else (must be a click, not a simple focus change) For the stylist, etc. windows: - They should *never* be closed at all, unless the user hits the close button! Why can't they simply stay open? - Every document window should have it's own stylist, on an individual position, not one window and a global position for all documents! The behaviour of these windows has always been very strange and unusual in OpenOffice! I've always hated this behaviour, but now together with the popup-menu issue, it became really unusable. All other applications I know behave exactly in the way I described above: No strange and unwanted window closing. Windows (position, size, open/close), mouse, focus, etc., are things that must be under full control of the user, at least after a first initialisation (means also, mouse must not jump around - that's fortunately configurable in OO). @us: I agree to lowering the priority, but I suggest to correct it before final 2.0 release.
Dupe. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 39420 ***
Hope it's ok to close the dupe. Please refer to issue 39420. Thx.