Public bug reported:
Calc normally aligns text cells to the right or to the left based on the
directionality of the first character of the cell (left-alignment with
English and right-alignment with Arabic). Unfortunately, this assignment
happens only when the user has finished typing and pressed Enter. While
typing, all text cells are aligned to the left, while for example
numbers are automatically aligned to the right even in the typing phase.
The same thing happens even when I’m modifying a text cell which was
already automatically aligned to the right: as soon as I double-click on
the cell, the text jumps to the left edge of the cell, and then I need
to visually relocate the exact place I wanted to modify.
As a user, I would expect cells with an RTL character in the beginning
to get aligned to the right already while the user is typing. This is
what happens with many other programs, too, such as Firefox when filling
out an HTML form. See the attached screenshot from Calc for an example.
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
Release: 18.04
Installed: 1:6.0.3-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 1:6.0.3-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 1:6.0.3-0ubuntu1 500
500 http://mr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: libreoffice-calc 1:6.0.3-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-33.36-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-33-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Sep 18 11:44:23 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-02-13 (582 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Release amd64 (20161012.2)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=C
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-05-31 (109 days ago)
** Affects: libreoffice (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic
** Attachment added: "Typing RTL text Calc.png"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1793130/+attachment/5190169/+files/Typing%20RTL%20text%20Calc.png
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1793130
Title:
Wrong alignment while typing RTL text in Calc cell
Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Calc normally aligns text cells to the right or to the left based on
the directionality of the first character of the cell (left-alignment
with English and right-alignment with Arabic). Unfortunately, this
assignment happens only when the user has finished typing and pressed
Enter. While typing, all text cells are aligned to the left, while for
example numbers are automatically aligned to the right even in the
typing phase. The same thing happens even when I’m modifying a text
cell which was already automatically aligned to the right: as soon as
I double-click on the cell, the text jumps to the left edge of the
cell, and then I need to visually relocate the exact place I wanted to
modify.
As a user, I would expect cells with an RTL character in the beginning
to get aligned to the right already while the user is typing. This is
what happens with many other programs, too, such as Firefox when
filling out an HTML form. See the attached screenshot from Calc for an
example.
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
Release: 18.04
Installed: 1:6.0.3-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 1:6.0.3-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 1:6.0.3-0ubuntu1 500
500 http://mr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: libreoffice-calc 1:6.0.3-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-33.36-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-33-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Sep 18 11:44:23 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-02-13 (582 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Release amd64 (20161012.2)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=C
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-05-31 (109 days ago)
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