[upstream] The Filter: dropdown in the File Open menu doesn't work

[Mitch Golden]

When you try to open a file, the Filter dropdown is not usable. All the different options turn into one single string and are not separately selectable. Because of this bug, you can't use the filter dropdown on the Open dialog. This means you can't open a
tab-delimited file with extension .txt as a spreadsheet, because if you use the open dialog without using the Filter dropdown, it always opens as a text file.

This bug has already been fixed upstream and a backport of the fix should be made in order for people to be able to open tab-delimited txt files.

See the discussion here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=820439

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: libreoffice-core 1:3.5.3-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue May 22 16:22:53 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120423)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=dumb
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/tcsh
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ian (ian-redhat-bugs)]

Created attachment 583395
Cropped contents of Filter drop-down (actual size extends across display)

Description of problem:
Trying to export from Draw to an EMF file. The Filter drop-down in the Export dialog is seriously borked; all of the formats other than HTML, XHTML, PDF, and Flash appear to have gotten corrupted somehow, and they are can only be selected together. The Export dialog in impress shows the same problem.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libreoffice-draw-3.5.2.1-6.fc17.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open LibreOffice Draw
2. File -> Export
3. Attempt to set Filter to anything except HTML, XHTML, PDF, or Flash

Actual results:
All other formats get selected together. Weird error message ensues.

Expected results:
Should be able to select individual format EMF, BMP, PNG, etc.

Additional info:

[Ian (ian-redhat-bugs)]

This problem is specific to the KDE-integrated export dialog. Removing libreoffice-kde is a workaround.

[Caolan (caolan-redhat-bugs)]

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=5df9e10d27a071f878ed160f99129a7f3c34f5ed

[Ian (ian-redhat-bugs)]

Created attachment 583685
Patch backported to 3.5.3.2

Currently rebuilding libreoffice-3.5.3.2-3.fc17.src.rpm with this patch. Will report results.

[Ian (ian-redhat-bugs)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Created attachment 583685 [details]
> Patch backported to 3.5.3.2

With this patch applied, the KDE export dialog works again.

[David (david-redhat-bugs)]

will be fixed in libreoffice-3.5.3.2-4.fc17

[Mitch (mitch-redhat-bugs)]

Can someone check to see if this patch fixes what appears to be the same behavior on the Import dialog? I am unable to select any single file type.

[Ian (ian-redhat-bugs)]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Can someone check to see if this patch fixes what appears to be the same
> behavior on the Import dialog? I am unable to select any single file type.

I'd be happy to check ... if I could find the Import dialog. Where is it?

[Mitch (mitch-redhat-bugs)]

(In reply to comment #7)
> (In reply to comment #6)
> > Can someone check to see if this patch fixes what appears to be the same
> > behavior on the Import dialog? I am unable to select any single file type.
>
> I'd be happy to check ... if I could find the Import dialog. Where is it?

Sorry - I just mean the ordinary file Open dialog. It's the filter dropdown at the bottom.

If you want to open a tab-delimited file with an extension .txt as a spreadsheet you have to go to Open... and then select "text csv" as the file type. If you don't do this, the file will open as a text document, not a spreadsheet. That is why this is actually a rather significant bug. The workaround is to rename the file .csv.

Do we know if this patch has been submitted upstream? I wasn't able to figure out where it should be sent to.

[Ian (ian-redhat-bugs)]

(In reply to comment #8)
> If you want to open a tab-delimited file with an extension .txt as a
> spreadsheet you have to go to Open... and then select "text csv" as the file
> type. If you don't do this, the file will open as a text document, not a
> spreadsheet. That is why this is actually a rather significant bug. The
> workaround is to rename the file .csv.

Seems to work just fine on my patched 3.5.3.2, so I'd say that it's fixed.

> Do we know if this patch has been submitted upstream? I wasn't able to
> figure out where it should be sent to.

Which patch? The patch in comment #2 is upstream. AFAIK, no one has submitted the patch attached to this bug upstream.

[Mitch (mitch-redhat-bugs)]

(In reply to comment #9)
> Which patch? The patch in comment #2 is upstream. AFAIK, no one has
> submitted the patch attached to this bug upstream.

Sorry, didn't get that. No, there's nothing do to at this point.