Typing into Writer hides Onboard screen keyboard

[marmuta]

Typing into Writer generates an AT-SPI event for lost focus. Onboard hides when that happens and has to be manually shown again to be able to continue typing.

Steps to reproduce:
1. sudo apt-get install libreoffice-gtk libreoffice-writer
2. Start Onboard screen keyboard, auto-show enabled
3. Start Writer with an empty document
   -> keyboard shows, ok
4. Type one character
   -> keyboard hides, when it should stay visible

Ubuntu 13.04
LibreOffice 1:3.6.2~rc2-0ubuntu6

[marmuta (marmuta)]

Created attachment 71590
At-spi messages onboard sees when starting Writer and typing one character.

Problem description:
Writer does send an AT-SPI focus messages when the window is first activated, which is great, but then it announces loss of focus after typing a single character. The screen keyboard Onboard hides when this happens. Typing is interrupted until the keyboard is manually shown again.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Start Onboard screen keyboard, auto-show enabled
2. Start Writer with an empty document
   -> keyboard shows, ok
3. Type one character
   -> keyboard hides, when it should stay visible

Current behavior:
AT-SPI events for lost focus are generated when no apparent loss of focus has occured.

Expected behavior:
Focus-lost events are not generated while typing text, or if necessary, they are followed by focus-received events.

Operating System: Ubuntu

[Robert Bruce Park (robru)]

I was not able to reproduce this bug on the 16GB Nexus 7 with latest raring images. Typing with onboard into Writer worked exactly as expected.

Can you please update to the latest raring image on your nexus and try again? Thanks!

[marmuta (marmuta)]

Still happens here on the 16GB Nexus 7 after re-running ubuntu-nexus7-installer. Do I have to install images manually to get the latest?

First thing I did after installation was
$ sudo apt-get install libreoffice-gtk libreoffice-writer
Then I dragged Writer to the launcher and started it.
Onboard showed, I typed "w" and Onboard hid again.

Same thing on a laptop with fully updated raring x86_64.

[Robert Bruce Park (robru)]

Try doing 'sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade' on the nexus and see if you still get the bug after that.

I was using the exact same version of libreoffice-writer that you mentioned, but I think there's been updates to unity and onboard since you filed the bug that may have fixed it.

[Robert Bruce Park (robru)]

I was able to reproduce this bug now, but only once, and only with libreoffice-gtk package installed. Before I had installed libreoffice-gtk, then Writer used Onboard quite normally, allowing me to type as much as I liked. After installing libreoffice-gtk package, then onboard hid after typing one single letter, but then after I re-summoned onboard, then it stayed up fine for more typing.

[marmuta (marmuta)]

Ah, I should have mentioned libreoffice-gtk has to be installed. I'll add that to the summary.
Note that manually showing Onboard pauses auto-show/hide and locks the keyboard visible. It doesn't act on Writer's focus messages then. Manual hiding turns auto-show back on.

[Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)]

Arent bugs 1090960 and bugs 1089462 dupes?

[marmuta (marmuta)]

I don't think they are duplicates. As I understand it, bug #1089462 is about the dependency to libreoffice-gtk, which contains libreoffice's bridge to ATK. No libreoffice-gtk, no auto-show.
This bug assumes libreoffice-gtk is installed, i.e. the prerequisite for auto-show is there, but there's a problem with the implementation.

[Jmadero-dev (jmadero-dev)]

I am relatively sure this is NOTOURBUG - I have tested on Bodhi with kvkbd as my onscreen keyboard and it works no problem. I suspect this is a Ubuntu issue.

@Bjoern - can you confirm that this isn't LibreOffice doing funky things?

[Qubit (qubit)]

TESTING on Ubuntu 12.04.3 with
LibreOffice Version: 4.2.0.1

(In reply to comment #0)
> Steps to reproduce:
> 1. Start Onboard screen keyboard, auto-show enabled
> 2. Start Writer with an empty document
> -> keyboard shows, ok
> 3. Type one character
> -> keyboard hides, when it should stay visible

NOREPRO - keyboard stays visible during all aspects of entering text.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

Marmuta - If you can still repro this problem on a modern version of LibreOffice, please leave a comment and change the status of this bug back to 'UNCONFIRMED'.
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/

Thanks!

[marmuta (marmuta)]

TESTING on Ubuntu 14.04 with
LibreOffice Version: 4.1.3-0ubuntu3

Thanks for testing, I can't reproduce it here anymore either.