Re: Boolean configuration settings not editable in tools - advanced - expert configuration

On 04.02.19 10:10, Winfried Donkers wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> > > I noticed a general unexpected behaviour when working with LibreOffice in Tools-Advanced-Expert 
> > > Configuration.
> > > When the setting is of type boolean, I cannot change the setting. I tried various existing 
> > > settings, mainly in org.openoffice.Office.Calc and both with current Master and version as 
> > > distributed with openSUSE Leap 15.0.
> > > My conclusion was that for reasons unknown to me, boolean settings are not editable and int 
> > > settings are.
>
> > Could you please describe what exactly "not editable" means? I.e., "I
> > double-click the boolean setting, and expect a dialog to pop up like for
> > ints, but instead, the setting just changes from true to false and back
> > in place, without dialogs"?
>
> Ah, now I'm beginning to understand what isn't clear.
> When using LO on a Linux machine, I need to double click a setting to edit it. In all cases, a 
> dialog appears. For string and int type settings, I can change/replace the value. For boolean 
> seeting, a dialog appears, bu I cannot change true to false or vice versa.

i just built a current master, and i'm not seeing this; double click 
toggles the boolean.

> When using LO on a Windows machine (where I am at his moment), there is a difference in tha case of 
> boolean type settings. No dialogs appears, but the value inverts by double-clicking.
> I could not acchieve this (change the value of a boolean type setting by just double-clicking) on 
> my openSUSE leap 15.0 machines - which I cannot access right now.

can you try different backends with SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen etc., maybe 
it's specific to some particular one.