Re: [orca-list] Likely bug with Office Writer, was: Re: More on submitting Orca bugs

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Thanks. I can reproduce it. I'll fix it if it's an Orca bug or report it
if it's a LibreOffice bug.

--joanie
On 2/15/19 9:26 AM, Christopher Gilland via orca-list wrote:
> OK, then, here we go.
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>
> Most recent update of Libreoffice Writer.
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> Orca 3.31.90 Pre
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> Ubuntu Mate 18.10.
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> 1. Open writer to a blank new document, and type three lines of text
> respectedly: item1, item2, and item3 all on their own line.
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> 2. Select all with CTRL+A.
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> 3. Go to the formatting toolbar with F6, hit space on the bullets
> button, then enter on one of the bulleted styles, doesn't matter which one.
>
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> 4. Press CTRL+Home to move to the top of the document, then while at the
> beginning of the first line of text, hit shift+down arrow to select the
> first line of text.
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> Orca is going to report something very strange.
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> Item 1 selected, item 2 selected.
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> So, this leads one to think the first two lines of text, in this case
> the first and second bulleted points are being selected, when, in all
> actuality, this definitely isn't the case. All being selected is the
> first line as you'd expect. Orca's just not reporting this correctly.
>
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> I've been able to produce this weird behavior with bulleted lists on 4
> different systems now, not including my friend who also tried, and was
> able to reproduce.
>
>
> Chris.
>
>
> On 02/15/2019 09:01 AM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > Hi Christopher.
> >
> > While anyone can file official bugs, I typically prefer people start
> > here stating the problem because often what you think might be a bug
> > isn't a bug and the user community can help.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > --joanie
> >
> > On 2/15/19 4:51 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland via orca-list wrote:
> > > I just tried, on the official Gitlab issues page for Orca to submit a
> > > bug report regarding Libreoffice Writer.
> > >
> > >
> > > The problem is, I don't seem to see it now anywhere in the opened tab of
> > > issues. It appears there only still is 19 issues, not 20. So, I'm
> > > baffeled as to what in the world happened.
> > >
> > >
> > > Does Joni first have to approve submissions? I didn't mark the checkbox
> > > stating it was confidential so, it should be showing up in theory, I'd
> > > think, shouldn't it?
> > >
> > >
> > > I know I can post bug reports here, but I wanted to go the official
> > > hopefully correct way of doing this, by filing them on the gitlabs
> > > website. If I should just post the report here however, then do let me
> > > know, and I'll do so going forward.
> > >
> > >
> > > My user name on gitlabs is
> > >
> > >
> > > waxhawlover
> > >
> > >
> > > Hopefully that'll help yall find my submission... provided it didn't
> > > crap out on me, and indeed took.
> > >
> > >
> > > I did this in Firefox on my Linux machine, and I'm still getting the
> > > hang of web browsing over there, so I might a done something wrong.
> > >
> > >
> > > Chris.
> > >
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