https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95833
Bug ID: 95833
Summary: EDITING: Objects are moved around randomly when doing
copy and paste
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 5.0.3.2 release
Hardware: Other
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Impress
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Also present in LibO draw.
Bug is seen in 5.0.3.2, but in fact it is also present in LibO 4.x.
In an ancient past, StarOffice/Openoffice times, selecting and object, doing
copy and then doing paste created a copy of the object perfectly overlapped
with the original one.
Probably, someone decided that this behavior was not the most desirable one,
since it made the "copy" somehow invisible, because of its being perfectly
overlapped. Maybe, it also caused users to forget about the copy, leading to
designs with multiple copies of the same object one over the other.
Hence, the paste routine was modified to paste the object in a position with
some offset with respect to the original position.
This would be very good, if the positioning was predictable (e.g. always 1 grid
unit right and down with respect to the original position). Unfortunately, this
is not the case.
Hence, when you copy and paste an object the copy goes into a totally random
position, which leads to a very bad usage impairment.
- Objects that used to be aligned to the grid loose their alignment and need to
be manually aligned again;
- Copying the same object from a slide to the next one in a presentation causes
the object to take a different position. So, if one wants the object at the
same position, it needs to be manually re-positioned (note that having little
skew in positions with the dissolve transition effect looks extremely bad).
- Objects are ofted pasted out of the slide/drawing and often out of the area
that is visible on screen at the current zoom level, giving the impression that
the paste operation has failed.
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