https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100826
Bug ID: 100826
Summary: Libreoffice command line help is unusable under
Windows
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 3.4.0 release
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: UI
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Created attachment 126143
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Screenshots of help dialogs from different versions
Under Windows, starting LibreOffice with --help (-h, -?) switch outputs the
information to a dialog, instead of console.
Given rather large amount of information there, this dialog is unusable
because:
1. It cannot be resized, and there is no scroll bars there to enable view of
parts outside of initially displayed part (both horizontally and vertically)
2. It doesn't enable copying text from it (neither using Ctrl+C, not selecting
by mouse)
3. Since 5.0, it doesn't allow closing clicking "Close" button by mouse (Bug
91622, supposedly because the text overlaps the button, thus click happens to
the text instead of the button).
It is unclear why would this help text need to be in a dialog in the first
place, because its intent is to enable user to use command line, which implies
console usage, so outputting this to console could be fine.
But if it's necessary (e.g., because console is unavailable to the program, or
no console experience is implied), then the dialog should be made usable by
making the text both scrollable and selectable/copiable, and not overlapping
"Close" button.
Attached are screenshots from different versions, where it's apparent that even
on older versions, where the text vertically fit the dialog, it still doesn't
fit horizontally. In recent versions, it doesn't fit both directions.
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