Reports for GSoC in LibreOffice and OpenSUSE

Writer can group Drawing objects. For example shapes(rectangles, circles), text boxes and draw images can be grouped together to drag & drop.

However, when copy/paste or drag&drop an image into the writer document canvas, (raster/bitmap)images are handled as Frame objects (holding images/bitmaps), not Drawing objects. Drawing objects have the group feature, but this feature is not implemented for Graphics(Frame objects/bitmap). This is why Writer can’t group raster images.

In Impress, when editing a text on a slide, CTRL+SHIFT+(HOME/END/ArrowUP/ArrowDOWN) shortcuts doesn’t select the text in the slide, but move the slide to the end of the slide stack.

Solution is simple: Disable slide sorter shortcuts when in text edit mode.

For people unfamiliar with non-Latin languages, IME (Input Method) may be a completely new concept since they will find all the characters present on the keyboard when typing. However, for the majority of people in Asia, typing in their language would be impossible if without IME. For example, if you want to type Chinese, there are thousands of Chinese characters in total, and a keyboard is just too small to put them all onto it. But with the help of IME, you can choose to use pinyin or other kinds of input schemas like Wubi. Then a standard US keyboard will be sufficient for typing all the Chinese characters.

IBus is an input method framework for developing input methods providing unified user interfaces. A lot of popular input methods are based on IBus, and IBus is also the default input method framework on GNOME. Even if you don’t use non-Latin languages, you may also find IBus useful with IBus Typing Booster installed.