[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 81720] After setting a cross-reference object from Fields dialog (or API calls), it can incorrectly receive edit cursor from document canvas during editing corrupting both reference field and document text (STR comment 22)

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81720

--- Comment #29 from Adomas Venčkauskas <adomas.ven at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Julien Nabet from comment #28)
> (In reply to Adomas Venčkauskas from comment #27)
> > The bug is still present and highly bothersome for reference manager such as
> > Zotero or Mendeley users, of which there are tens (if not hundreds) of
> > thousands who use LibreOffice. I am certain this is 1 or 2 line change and
> > we just need to get the eyes of the right developers to get it fixed. Could
> > someone who does bug triage reach out to the right people here?
> 
> Since you seem confident about the fact it would just need a 1 or 2 lines
> change in the code, I propose you to give it a try.
> Here's a start link to start contributing in dev part:
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GetInvolved
> (some devs may help you if necessary on forum or IRC)

While I appreciate the idea, a 1 or 2 line fix for someone who is involved with
the codebase, works on it every day and knows the code inside out takes
anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour to make. For someone who does not have the
build and development environment setup and has never looked at the codebase it
could mean days or weeks, and also possibly hours wasted of those same
developers, providing help via IRC and mailing lists on how to set this whole
thing up and figure out where the code related to the features is. While this
is an important issue for Zotero, it is just an important for Document
Foundation if they are at all trying to be a serious alternative to Microsoft
Word, where this works as expected.

Having said that, getting the attention of the right developers for this would
be the most time efficient course of action and provide a huge improvement in
usability for a large and passionate chunk of LibreOffice's userbase, who
otherwise get edged to Word exactly for such minor annoyances.

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