Description of problem: We use a background image in a letter template to put a watermark and the company logo in place. The image is set to be far in the background, spans the whole page, and text should run on top of it. The Text, which one day should be the content of the letter, cannot get focus once you (even accidentally) clicked on the image. This is quite unhelpful if one actually wants to write a letter. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libreoffice-writer-3.3.2.2-10.fc15.x86_64 openoffice.org-writer-3.3.0-20.6.fc14.x86_64 How reproducible: Every time, see below: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Put an image in the background, let it span the page and configure it to have text on top. 2. Write some text and click on the image. Try to get back to the text then. Actual results: No focus on text. Expected results: Focus on text.
attach an example. Lower the barrier to reproduce.
Created attachment 516902 [details] Example file with wrong behavior Thanks for your time, of course a file would have made sense from the first minute on. This is a censored file (the image, of course, was just drawn quickly…).
ping?
press escape ?
Cedric fixed this "hard to select the right thing" with prioritising foreground content over background when looking for something to select http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=d4b74188c87cdeb881aacbc053594a7c697ab1ca Could backport that, though its still a little experimental. http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=89aaee9adad9d0ceac5a6a422b415152abe74e8c related, but that was only done today.
Yeah, too fresh IMO to backport safely. Its an old problem, with a new solution for 3.5
What does that mean now? Will I have to wait till LibreOffice 3.5 for getting this fix? If so, when can I expect that version roughly?
yes, 3.5. I'm too cowardly to backport the in-progress fix for this long-standing problem to the stable 3-4 version in F15/F16 http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan#3.5_release is the 3.5 release schedule
Escape does not work, unfortunately. But it seems there is a solution, although February 2012 is extremly far away considering that any user of the document has to apply extreme caution till then as not to click on the image by accident. This would not by any chance fit into 3.4.4? Thank you for the time spent investigating this!
Referencing this issue with case #00769507 in the Red Hat Network for RHEL 6, because I am suffering this issue on my RHEL 6 workstation now, while Fedora Rawhide (LibreOffice 3.6.x) seems to work like a charm regarding this...
just for the record, there was quite a series of iterative fixes and new regressions for this problem area upstream (see for example fdo bugs 52182 and 58142); currently in 3.6.5 and 4.0 there are no known problems any more.
Michael, can you please ensure that your colleagues working on my RHN case are really aware about that also? I don't know if these patches are backportable, alternatively I'm still a fan of rebasing LibreOffice in RHEL 6. Thank you...