On 02.08.2013 14:57, Rob Weir wrote:
BTW, I received a more detailed note from the user, to my personal
mail. It sounds like this was an unintentional use of drag & drop
rather than a bug in how drag & drop works.
It looks like there is a system-wide registry setting for rag & drop
sensitivity in Windows:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-performance/can-you-turn-off-drag-and-drop-in-windows-7/81804779-a061-e011-8dfc-68b599b31bf5
The link above leads to a community forum that explains how to change
the values of registry entry'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop'.
To me that does not look like something other applications (like AOO)
should use.
-Andre
But I don't know whether OpenOffice follows that setting or not.
I suggest we treat this like an accessibility issue. Some users may
have limited finger coordination and accidentally invoke drag & drop.
But it will be best if we can hook into OS-level accessibility
settings for this. For example, we don't have "sticky keys" support
or a setting for determining how fast a pair of clicks must be to be
considered a double-click. We rely on the OS for that. If we could
do something similar for drag & drop that would be great.
-Rob
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 4:26 AM, Andris Vanags [Multistate]
<andris.van...@multistate.co.uk> wrote:
Please disable the DRAG AND DROP (probably called a feature but it's really a
bug), or put in an option to disable it.
I've just noticed that I've ruined a spreadsheet that's taken years to produce
with data recorded in it daily.
Could you say a bit more about exactly how drag & drop caused
problems? Did it crash your machine? Did it work incorrectly? Or
are you saying that you were not aware of drag & drop and so you
caused changes to your spreadsheet that you did not intend?
It would be good to narrow down the issue, so we can see whether this
is a bug in drag & drop itself, or something else.
Regards,
-Rob
Today I've found it's now all crap, useless, irreparable, a total waste of some
7 years work and research!
Why didn't I create backups? I did, but the unadulterated ones are (before
using open office calc) now well over a year old, so all the data entered
since then is lost or patchy/intermittent at best; all the continuity is gone!
Thanks for that! Seven years of work destroyed because someone didn't have
the brains to disable this data ruining feature!
I have to revert to Microsoft where this evil feature can be disabled and start
work all over again. It really does go to show that there's a big difference
between professionally produced packages and something that's free or just
knocked up in someone's bedroom!
If you want to help your users, get someone to look at this abomination before
more work is irretrievably ruined.
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