[upstream] Truncated elements in dialog he_IL

[Shahar Or]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

Dear friends,

The screen shot demonstrates this.

It is found in Style -> Page.

Perhaps it appears only in RTL. I didn't check.

Many blessings.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: openoffice.org-core 1:3.0.1-9ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=he_IL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: openoffice.org
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Can you please try reproducing this problem with the official openoffice.org at http://openoffice.org/ then report this bug upstream at http://www.openoffice.org/issues/query.cgi as the problem is hard for me to reproduce it would be better if you worked with the OpenOffice.org developers directly on this problem. After reporting the problem in their bugtracker please attach the bug number to this bug report. Thanks!

[Shahar Or (mightyiam)]

Dear Chris,

I'm not able to find it in Hebrew.

http://download.openoffice.org/other.html#he doesn't have it and the only source for the Hebrew version, http://www.openoffice.org.il/ , doesn't have any Linux downloads.

Many blessings.

[Shahar Or (mightyiam)]

Dear Chris,

This also happens in the version 1:3.1.0-3ubuntu2~jaunty1 from https://launchpad.net/~openoffice-pkgs/+archive/ppa .

Many blessings.

[Shahar Or (mightyiam)]

This is still in Karmic

[Shlomil (shlomister)]

I can confirm that this bug still exists on Lucid.

[Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)]

No new OOo releases in Ubuntu => Wont fix
Needs upstream bug reference in LibreOffice => Incomplete

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Shahar Or, does this issue occur for you in LibreOffice? If using Lucid or Maverick feel free to type at the Terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade && sudo apt-get -y install libreoffice-calc

[Shahar Or (mightyiam)]

Running lowriter in natty I see that the interface is system default language and not Hebrew. So I can't test it like this.

Is this because LibreOffice is not yet translated to Hebrew?

[Shlomil (shlomister)]

I just ran lowriter on Oneiric Beta1 (Hebrew GUI) and the problem still exists.

[Shahar Or (mightyiam)]

Downstream Ubuntu bug report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/371257

Screenshot:
http://bit.ly/pVMZnM

Screenshot is self-explanatory.

Apart from the missing glyphs (another bug) some elements in the window are truncated.

I'm not sure which version this is in.

[Lior Kaplan (kaplan)]

Created attachment 51281
an example of the format->page window in LibO writer on Debian

[Lior Kaplan (kaplan)]

This isn't a new issue (was also reported against openoffice.org at http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107662), but it does seem to be Ubuntu specific (or at least specific to the way Ubuntu integrates LibO with GTK or something similar).

I'm attaching a screen shot of libreoffice on debian unstable (package version 3.4.3-1).

[Libreoffice-z (libreoffice-z)]

I would really like to understand what problem we are talking about.
In linked OOo (?!) screenshot from original report I see rectangles instead of text on the tabs, and the black border around the selection boxes is missing at the left side - the second one is the problem?

I also see the problem in the screenshot for "Bug 42078 - The buttons in combo boxes are not mirrored in RTL interface".

I can't reproduce with Farsi and Arabic UI using "LibreOffice 3.4.4 - WIN7 Home Premium (64bit) [OOO340m1 (Build:402)]", Win UI looks completely different and buttons are at the left end of the panes, what might be an additional bug.

I change
- Version to unspecified because reporter did not contribute any information and
  original OOo bug is for OOo 3.1.1!
- OS to Linux due to report

@Shahar Or
Please check with 3.4.3 and report your results.
Can you please leave a comment in Bug 42078?

[Libreoffice-z (libreoffice-z)]

Please ignore my nonsense comment " ... are at the left end of the panes ..."!

I believe the main problem is that the pulldown buttons are not at their place. They should be inside the box and for RTL UI they should be at the left end of the pane with the value (see ATTACHED screenshot)
But in the linked screenshot the buttons are outside the box and at the right of the value panes, what means completely misplaced.

I doubt that this is a LibO issue.

@Shahar Or
Do you agree with my conclusions?

[Yotam Benshalom (benshalom)]

A note I made on bug 42078, which is probably a dup:

The problem is that the combo boxes are not fully mirrored on rtl linux - the box element is, but the buttons are not. I do not agree that the fact that it appears only on linux means that it is a linux problem. In all gtk, qt, mozilla and chromium apps the combo boxes behave as they should in a linux rtl environment. I think LibreOffice is doing something wrong here.

[Lior Kaplan (kaplan)]

As I said before - this is a specific bug for Ubuntu, as it doesn't happen in Debian (and Ubuntu packages are based on Debian). Also notice this comment: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=107662#c7

The squares in the Ubuntu screen shot were another bug and already fixed in the meantime (e.g. the screen shot in this bug).

[Lior Kaplan (kaplan)]

*** Bug 42078 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Shahar Or (mightyiam)]

Did anyone look at the code yet?

[Lior Kaplan (kaplan)]

This also happens in nightly builds (from LibO site, no with Debian's packages) on 3.5.0-dev. Editing bug title accordingly.

[Lior Kaplan (kaplan)]

Created attachment 53916
Drop down arrow near comobo boxes in RTL UI

[Lior Kaplan (kaplan)]

Created attachment 53917
an example of the format->page window in LibO writer from official build

[Khaled Hosny (khaledhosny)]

This issue have been fixed in master (commits 0608cb3, d2028f9 and f8e53d7).

[Khaled Hosny (khaledhosny)]

BTW, I fixed this before seeing this bugzilla bug, this issue have annoyed me since the first time I first used OOo and I think there are tens of bug reports about this in OOo bug tracker, all ignored.

The issue is GTK specific; in RTL mode GTK mirrors most of its widget, but OOo/LO (who is directly using low level GTK APIs to draw the widgets itself) does not take into account this mirroring which results in this mismatch. The aforementioned commits fix all the three widget I've noticed (combo box, combo box entry and spin button).

[Yotam Benshalom (benshalom)]

A well-deserved hooray for Khaled is due!

[Shahar Or (mightyiam)]

Hooray, Khaled! And thanks for the explanation, too!
Excellent!

[Lior Kaplan (kaplan)]

Confirmed with daily build. Thanks Khaled.

build info:
tinderbox: tree: libreoffice-3-5
tinderbox: pull time 2011-12-10 06:30:38
tinderbox: git sha1s
core:3d5e50860ea9375acad9c42f2aefbbf6d7a1866e

[Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)]

Fix released as per:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/df-libreoffice/+bug/371257/comments/23
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40950#c16