https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40893

--- Comment #12 from Stefano Forli <[email protected]> 2012-09-08 01:24:07 UTC 
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It is so frustrating having to justify this as a bug, but here we go...

@Rainer Bielefeld
Accordingly to your citation, besides being counter-intuitive, cumbersome,
impractical, inconsistent,... the procedure of moving a table as described in
the manual contains a bug.

No other object requires this treatment for being manipulated (hence,
inconsistency).

In fact, when cutting and pasting a table selected, the cells are left behind
and not properly moved. As far as I can tell, the cells *are* part of the table
itself, so when cutting the selection these are apparently treated separately
from the object they belong to.

The same thing happening with a text selection (i.e.: "when cutting/pasting
text, only alphanumeric characters are included, punctuation must be removed in
step X") would look really weird, no matter in which step they are removed,
eventually.

If there would be any usability/logic reasons why a table object should be
treated differently than any other object, then this bug should be closed.
Mind that: usability/logic reasons, not documentation ones. The manual
describes only a procedure that works with the current code, and infamous step
6 is a workaround for the bug.

Although, since a cut/paste operation does not seem to be able to grab
correctly all the components of an object without leaving leftovers, it must be
fixed (and the manual updated).

(I can't see why this wouldn't be an improvement compared to the current
procedure)

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