no color high light problem

[regre]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

I highlighted a lot of thing yellow, after that to take the color off so i highlighted a part of the yellow and chose no fill. the yellow disapear. after that i wanted to unhighlight an other part. The "no fill" was still selected for the high light color. so i just press the icon ( not the color). Nothing happened. I tried it on an unhighlighted word and it highlighted it yellow.

It's like if the no color was not a high light color..... adn you must choose to unhighlight....

I'm using Hardy,
OO 2.4.1

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Oct 9 16:39:41 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: openoffice.org-core 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/lib/openoffice/program:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: openoffice.org
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

[Rodolphe Ortalo (rodolphe-ortalo)]

That behaviour is reproducible indeed. But it seems to be the intended behaviour of OOo interface.
Therefore, the "highlight" icon button only applies highlighting (using the least recently used color) but never removes it.
Maybe that behaviour is a little surprising from the point of view of a user; but apart from submitting a feature improvement request upstream, I do not think something can be done at the Ubuntu level.

Perhaps an improvement would be that hitting the button when the selected text is already highlighted (with the same color) actually removes the color instead of reapplying it (a no-op in this case). Dunno if that would really be felt as an improvement for every user. Advice?