Dear Christopher I am sorry for the delay (away from the office). Here is a png screenshot combo of the Undo behaviour in LibreOffice Writer (see attachment). At the time of the two screenshots, the document was 308 possible undo actions long. I touched nothing in LibreOffice between the two screenshots.
The top screenshot in the png image shows the pointer hovering over the Undo-button with the pop-up balloon triggered by it. The balloon says "Undo: Typing 'Go'". This is wrong in two ways: The last typing action to undo was a comma, not 'Go'. And the previous typing action was not 'Go' but 'Governor'. This is shown by the LibreOffice text section in the image. And it is also shown by the bottom screenshot in the attached png image, where I pulled open the Undo pull-down menu. There are three more noticeable events: - When I first tried to get my screenshot working, the Undo pop-up balloon did not say "Undo: Typing 'Go'" but "Undo: Typing 'G'". So, the Undo pop-up balloon text is not just wrong, it is also inconsistent. - When the document auto-saved with the cursor hovering over the Undo button, the pop-up balloon message changed from "Undo: Typing 'G'" to "Can't undo" after the auto-save, which is clearly also wrong. - When I minimized the LibreOffice document window, and then restored it to its current size, the pop-up balloon correctly said "Undo: Typing ','". But when I next deleted part of the last sentence shown and retyped it, the earlier erroneous Undo behaviour presented itself again. I cannot find any systematic way to trigger these errors in the Undo behaviour. But it makes the Undo button function less than dependable. I have resorted to using Ctrl+Z instead, which appears to perform well. Earlier versions of OpenOffice also had this Undo fault, but the most recent OpenOffice versions in the Ubuntu repo prior to the Ubuntu upgrade to 11.04 -- when OpenOffice was replaced by LibreOffice -- had apparently been corrected. Those most recent OpenOffice versions in the Ubuntu 10.10 repo also had the improved Document Compare options, which for some reason have been dropped again in LibreOffice. So, sadly, I now have to go back to my old MS Office installation again on a dual-boot netbook for precise document version comparison. >From this, I presume that LibreOffice has been forked from on an older version of OpenOffice, and that it has not been based on the most recent stable OpenOffice version as of circa April 2011, nor even on stable OpenOffice as of October 2010. Maybe this helps in tracing the issue. ** Attachment added: "LibreOffice Writer - Erroneous Undo Button Behaviour" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/782401/+attachment/2169147/+files/LibreOffice%20Undo%20-%20Hover%20Pop-Up%20vs%20Pull-Down.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/782401 Title: Error in Undo Button (Writer) (Regression) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/782401/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
