Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 73320
useless error message when cancelling the paste of unformatted clipboard text
Last modified: 2013-08-07 15:15:35 UTC
- copy some text into the clipboard which contains a space character Make sure you do this in an application which really only copies the text format (no HTML etc.) - in an empty cell of a Calc spreadsheet, press Ctrl-V => The "Text import" dialog appears - press Escape to cancel this dialog => an info message is shown saying "The contents of the clipboard could not be pasted." Well, yes, heck, I just *cancelled* pasting, so why bother me?
This is a usability issue. If the user cancels an operation, this should *cancel*, not disturb/distract with yet another dialog. (Side note: The "Text Import" dialog as such is disturbing enough in daily work. I do not know *any* other application which, upon a simply Paste, opens a modal dialog. This is highly unusual in my opinion, and breaks my work flow multiple times a day ...)
In CWS calc41: sc/source/ui/view/viewfun5.cxx 1.45.16.1 Regarding the disturbing "Text Import" dialog: that was introduced upon request, see issue 15509, as we don't have a general "process clipboard data to paste" handling with a filter options button in the Paste Special dialog.
thanks for the quick fix. I added my rant to issue 15509, thanks for pointing me there.
Reassigning to QA.
found fixed on cws calc41 using Windows, Solaris and Linux builds
found fixed on master OOFm6 using Linux, Solaris and Windows build