Bug 38139

Summary:	Copy and paste with mouse between spreadsheets on different computers results in OLE object
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Frank Steiner <fsteiner-board>
Component:	Spreadsheet	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	3.3.1 release
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
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i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Frank Steiner 2011-06-10 01:13:29 UTC

We see the problem since OpenOffice 3.2 (maybe 3.1, not in 3.0) and now in
libreoffice 3.3.1.2 in SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1 when we copy and
paste from one libreoffice spreadsheed running on the local PC to a libreoffice
spreadsheed running on a remote PC (or vice versa)

We mark some cells with the left mouse key on the local PC. When we copy with
Ctrl-C and press Ctrl-V in the remote spreadsheed, the data is inserted as
expected. 
When we insert on the remote spreadsheed with the middle mouse key
(the standard linux way for copy & paste) while the cells are stilled marked
(otherwise nothing would be pasted), we get an OLE object. The result is the same as described in bug #31077 and it looks exactly as in the attached screenshot in this bug (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=39809). 

Copy&Paste with left+middle mouse keys works fine within the same or between
two spreadsheets when both are running on the local PC or both on the remote
PC. Thus, only copying+pasting between two spreadsheets on two different PCs
(both could be on different remote PCs, too) and only when pasting with the
middle mouse key, the data is pasted as OLE object. 

Maybe the workaround in bug #31077 fixed only the Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V code and must be applied to the code part that handles mouse pasting for linux?

cu,
Frank

Comment 1 Björn Michaelsen 2011-12-23 12:21:56 UTC

[This is an automated message.]
This bug was filed before the changes to Bugzilla on 2011-10-16. Thus it
started right out as NEW without ever being explicitly confirmed. The bug is
changed to state NEEDINFO for this reason. To move this bug from NEEDINFO back
to NEW please check if the bug still persists with the 3.5.0 beta1 or beta2 prereleases.
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Comment 2 Frank Steiner 2012-01-09 01:21:18 UTC

The bug still exists in the same way in LOdev 3.5.0beta2.

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