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477 bytes added, 13:08, 18 May 2009
Glitches: Added changes after Mac OS 15 May 2009 update.
== Glitches ==
There are some problems. An update of Mac OS X on about 15 May 2009 changed gramps's behaviour in several ways, too. Presumably, these changes are the results of fixing bugs in the Apple X11 implementation.
* Gramps on Mac uses ctrl-x, ctrl-c, ctrl-v for cut, copy, paste. The standard for mac programs, inclduing including X11 programs, is cmd-x, cmd-c, cmd-v. AndBefore the 15 May 2009 update, using either ctrl-click with an apple mouse, or right-click with would allow a twopaste into gramps. After the 15 May 2009 update, right-button mouseclick now allows paste into gramps, doesn't allow but the item pasted is only one copied from within gramps. For example, it is no longer possible to copy a cell from an openoffice spreadsheet and paste properly. Only ctrl-V will paste it into grampsin any way.* Some text pasted in - notably the contents of a cell from an Openoffice spreadsheet, but possibly other as well - has a <LF> character at the end, unexpectedly. (This can no longer be demonstrated after the 15 May 2009 update).
* Double clicking an image in the media reference editor doen't bring up an external viewer to show the picture full size. In fact, there seems to be no way to do this from within gramps on Mac.
* Before the 15 May 2009 update: Little popup yellow help notices notices which are supposed to appear when you hover over a button do appear, but do so even when the gramps window isn't in focus and there's a window from another application covering it up. This may apply just After the 15 May 2009 update, this seems to windows like the person editor be fixed, and not to popup notices only appear when the main original gramps windowis in focus.
* Switching to another user, using the OS X fast user switching feature, gramps can mess up the display on returning to the orignal user. The cure is to quit gramps and restart it.
* It is not possible to start Gramps by double clicking on a Mac OS icon, nor by double clicking on a Gramps database that is associated with the application. (It should be possible to create an installation that allows this, just as it is available for OpenOffice).
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