BTW, I received a more detailed note from the user, to my personal mail. It sounds like this was an unintentional use of drag & drop rather than a bug in how drag & drop works.
It looks like there is a system-wide registry setting for rag & drop sensitivity in Windows: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-performance/can-you-turn-off-drag-and-drop-in-windows-7/81804779-a061-e011-8dfc-68b599b31bf5 But I don't know whether OpenOffice follows that setting or not. I suggest we treat this like an accessibility issue. Some users may have limited finger coordination and accidentally invoke drag & drop. But it will be best if we can hook into OS-level accessibility settings for this. For example, we don't have "sticky keys" support or a setting for determining how fast a pair of clicks must be to be considered a double-click. We rely on the OS for that. If we could do something similar for drag & drop that would be great. -Rob On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 4:26 AM, Andris Vanags [Multistate] > <andris.van...@multistate.co.uk> wrote: >> Please disable the DRAG AND DROP (probably called a feature but it's really >> a bug), or put in an option to disable it. >> I've just noticed that I've ruined a spreadsheet that's taken years to >> produce with data recorded in it daily. >> > > Could you say a bit more about exactly how drag & drop caused > problems? Did it crash your machine? Did it work incorrectly? Or > are you saying that you were not aware of drag & drop and so you > caused changes to your spreadsheet that you did not intend? > > It would be good to narrow down the issue, so we can see whether this > is a bug in drag & drop itself, or something else. > > Regards, > > -Rob > >> Today I've found it's now all crap, useless, irreparable, a total waste of >> some 7 years work and research! >> Why didn't I create backups? I did, but the unadulterated ones are (before >> using open office calc) now well over a year old, so all the data entered >> since then is lost or patchy/intermittent at best; all the continuity is >> gone! Thanks for that! Seven years of work destroyed because someone >> didn't have the brains to disable this data ruining feature! >> >> I have to revert to Microsoft where this evil feature can be disabled and >> start work all over again. It really does go to show that there's a big >> difference between professionally produced packages and something that's >> free or just knocked up in someone's bedroom! >> >> If you want to help your users, get someone to look at this abomination >> before more work is irretrievably ruined. >> >> >> >> >> This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential >> and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to >> whom they are addressed. >> >> If you receive this message in error, please notify: >> andris.van...@multistate.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
