Bug 694685

Summary: Calc AUTO-FILL feature is disabled on Fedora packages (all Open-Office package versions)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: nomnex <nomnex>
Component: openoffice.orgAssignee: Jonathan Blandford <jrb>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 14CC: caillon, caolanm, ddumas, dtardon
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Description nomnex 2011-04-08 01:40:19 UTC 
Description of problem:

I have been advised, on the Fedora IRC channel, to keep and use the Open-Office default package of my distribution (3.2 on F13 and 3.3 on F14).

I have also been told that the Fedora open-office packages was superior to the default open-office (regularly patched and updated, etc).

Okay, fine, I will use my distribution package.

Just now, I need to create a basic spreedsheet. It takes me 15 minutes to figure out why (the hell!!) a "no-brainer function" available on ALL the spreadsheet applications I have tried (Windoze, Genumeric, Sun Open-Office) work all (~about) the same way, but it DOES NOT work with the Fedora open-office package.

If this is not a software but, that is a human bug (smash him like a bug).

See the problem and the workaround (and laugh) http://www.spinics.net/lists/centos/msg81650.html

Sure enough, I am thinking installing the (defunct-Sun-new-evil-Oracle) OO.org package straight away. But I don't like doing that.

Will this issue be addressed with the Libre-Office package available on Fedora 15?

If not, can I use this bug to request the "auto-fill feature" to be enabled on the Open-Office (whatever the flavor) Fedora packages?

Thanks in advance
Comment 1 David Tardon 2011-04-08 04:29:51 UTC 
Red Hat reviews and scrubs its code for intellectual property issues. Our approach has always been conservative, i.e., if there is any question, resolve the issue or remove the code.  Red Hat recently implemented a number of changes in its distribution of OpenOffice to address such issues.  These changes should not be construed as implying any immediate intellectual property problem; rather, they have been implemented to assure that no such immediate problems arise. While implementing these changes in our own distribution of OpenOffice, we have also made them available upstream to the OpenOffice project.
Comment 2 nomnex 2011-04-08 07:26:33 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Red Hat reviews and scrubs its code for intellectual property issues. Our
> approach has always been conservative, i.e., if there is any question, resolve
> the issue or remove the code.

I see now. That's fair.  Any information if LibreOffice calc version in F-15 suffers the same limitation? If not, I might install the rawhide repo and test LO. Thank.
Comment 3 David Tardon 2011-04-08 08:15:50 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Red Hat reviews and scrubs its code for intellectual property issues. Our
> > approach has always been conservative, i.e., if there is any question, resolve
> > the issue or remove the code.
> 
> I see now. That's fair.  Any information if LibreOffice calc version in F-15
> suffers the same limitation?

It doesn't (yet).