SHIFT-CTRL-CURSOR_KEY combos don't work anymore to select text
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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AbiWord |
Fix Released
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Medium
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abiword (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
Trusty |
Fix Released
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Low
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Thomas Ward |
Bug Description
[Impact]
This bug affects all the users that are used to the common shortcut to select words of text in a generic text editor / word processing software:
the "CTRL + SHIFT + LEFT/RIGHT CURSOR KEY" combo.
This shortcut is, from decades, a "de facto standard" in nearly all the text/word processing software with a GUI. It's not a missing feature of Abiword, because previous versions of it had this functionality, but in the package from the current ubuntu repositories (3.0.0-4ubuntu1) it doesn't work anymore.
The impact of the bug depends from the user habits. If you are like me, ie you are used to select entire words of text with this combo very often, Abiword will seem almost inusable to you.
Notice that the bug was already reported, fixed and committed some months ago by the Abiword dev team in the svn of the stable release branch: http://
[Test Case]
The bug is very simple to reproduce: open Abiword, write some words and try to use the standard CTRL-SHIFT-
[Regression Potential]
I don't see particular regression problems from the reported fix, and abiword dev team should think in the same way if they committed the fix to their stable branch. The patchfix is very small... From what I can see, only an "if" condition added to the previous code.
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I attached the bugfix from bugzilla.
Cheers,
amigamagic
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: abiword 3.0.0-4ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Sun May 4 23:45:06 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-12 (22 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Daily amd64 (20140411)
SourcePackage: abiword
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
tags: | added: cherry-pick |
Changed in abiword (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in abiword: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
description: | updated |
Changed in abiword (Ubuntu Trusty): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
status: | New → Triaged |
Attached is a debdiff for consideration on this bug. The patch needed some very minor modifications to apply, but it's still all of upstream's patch, nothing else.