Re: [libreoffice-users] 4.3 Writer Beta Breaks Alternate Search Extension

On 01/27/2014 12:19 PM, CVAlkan wrote:
> I'm using Writer Version: 4.3.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID:
> be4035d00f37c492494fa7860955b6d0868c7f77 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64 bit Linux
>
> In the course of trying to figure out how to remove index marks from a
> Writer document, one of the things I tried was to load the Alternate Search
> and Replace Extension, which I had used before. As it turns out, it doesn't
> have the capability of finding index marks (the Index Property is for
> something else), so it wouldn't have helped me anyway, but while trying, I
> ran into a bug I thought should be reported.
>
> I downloaded the latest available version 1.4 (Jan 21, 2014) of the
> Alternate Search and Replace Extension, but found that I could no longer
> choose items from the drop down list of Properties, as it simply used
> whatever it felt like. Not good.
>
> So thinking the new version perhaps had a bug of some sort, I loaded the
> version I had used earlier, which was 1.3.2 (July 1, 2013).
>
> Same problem.
>
> Then I ran Writer Version: 4.2.0.1 Build ID:
> 7bf567613a536ded11709b952950c9e8f7181a4a (I'm using the 4.3 alpha because of
> another bug in 4.2, but that's a whole other story). I tried both versions
> of the Alternate Search and Replace Extension and they both work fine with
> Writer 4.2.
>
> I can only draw the conclusion that something has gotten broken between the
> two Writer versions referenced above.
>
> How does this get reported to the developers?
Extensions are third party development and therefore not part of our bug
tracker. Unfortunately all you can do is hope that the developer of the
extension sees that it is broken and fixes it (currently we have no
method of contacting the extension provider).


Best,
Joel

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