Re: [gentoo-user] Strange behavior of "tab" key with Libreoffice Calc and Plasma

[Stefano Crocco]

On lunedì 24 giugno 2019 13:44:04 CEST you wrote:
> On domenica 23 giugno 2019 21:40:53 CEST Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Sun, 23 Jun 2019 20:59:34 +0200, Stefano Crocco wrote:
> > > a few months ago I started noticing a very annoying behavior when
> > > pressing the "tab" key in Libreoffice Calc. Previously, pressing this
> > > key would move the cursor by one cell to the right, so that I could
> > > immediately start writing into the cell. Now, while the cursor is moved
> > > to the correct cell (I can see the black border around it), I can't
> > > write in it immediately anymore. To move the cursor to the next cell
> > > and be able to immediately write in it, I need to press the tab key
> > > twice. It seems that somehow pressing the tab key once gives focus to
> > > the menu bar: pressing tab once, then pressing "F" brings down the file
> > > menu; pressing tab, then pressing "E" displays the edit menu and so on.
> > >
> > > Has anyone experienced this behavior?
> >
> > I see it too and it's annoying as hell. Even more annoying will be that
> > when it is solved I will have got into the habit of pressing tab twice
> > for each move :(
>
> I'm (relatively) happy to know I'm not the only one experiencing this issue.
> Currently I'm playing around with USE flags to see whether there's a
> combination of them which fixes the problem. I think it's somehow caused by
> the kde flag: I tried USE="gtk2 kde -gtk", USE="kde -gtk -gtk2" and
> USE="gtk   -kde -gtk2" and the only configuration where this issue didn't
> appear was the one without kde. I've yet to try USE="-gtk2 kde gtk", but I
> don't think it'll work.
>
> I'm getting really annoyed by this, so I think later today I'll file a bug
> report.
>
> Stefano

Bug submitted. For anyone interested, here's the link:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/688618

Stefano