1272363 - Keyboard copy (ctrl + x) in gdocs spreadsheet not working

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Karen Rudnitski [:kar]]

I apologize if this isn't the right bugzilla component - it was a guess on my part.

I'm on Nightly, 49.0a1 (2016-05-12), on a Windows 10 machine on a Lenovo Carbon X1 Touch.

I've been trying to copy and paste a graph I made from GDocs on one tab into another. It's not recognizing the 'copy' (ctrl + x), as nothing gets pasted.

However, if I open up the gdocs spreadsheet in chrome and copy it (ctrl + x), I can paste it into the other gdocs doc that's in firefox.

Comment 1

[Andrew Overholt [:overholt]]

Any chance you can share the documents, Karen?

Comment 2

[Andrew Overholt [:overholt]]

(Just sharing with *@mozilla.com may be enough to diagnose the problem)

Comment 3

[Karen Rudnitski [:kar]]

Trying to copy from here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vivp_kvDy84Dh0QUTminrRhVLYybhgegqG-MKXWKIyQ/edit#gid=121864854 

to here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Pyzek4XlcwkNqiBivMSDCRFp1wZ1EsmWigfpvBsYmvM/edit#heading=h.ukqrrqqh86i5

Comment 4

[Nika Layzell [:nika] (ni? for response)]

(In reply to Karen Rudnitski [:kar] from comment #3)
> Trying to copy from here:
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vivp_kvDy84Dh0QUTminrRhVLYybhgegqG-
> MKXWKIyQ/edit#gid=121864854 
> 
> to here:
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/
> 1Pyzek4XlcwkNqiBivMSDCRFp1wZ1EsmWigfpvBsYmvM/edit#heading=h.ukqrrqqh86i5

I made my own google doc, and tried to copy one of the graphs in the first tab into that doc (using chrome). Maybe I'm doing it wrong but it doesn't seem to work on chrome either :S (mac OS X). I'll take another look at trying it out, but I'm having trouble copying graphs at all.

Comment 5

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

This might be a dupe of Bug 1234024?

Comment 6

[Hallvord R. M. Steen [:hallvors]]

I confirm that it's not working in Chrome for me either. So Google has simply not implemented copying of graphs to the clipboard yet - in any browser. We're working on improving the copy/cut/paste functionality to make it a lot easier to support this kind of stuff - see https://github.com/garykac/clipboard/blob/master/clipboard.md

Once Google implements this, depending on how exactly they choose to do it, this might become a duplicate of bug 1234024 as Mike mentions, or bug 891247, or bug 1221562, or a dupe of yet-to-be-filed follow-up bugs for the latter... Right now I'll close it, but I fully expect to have to re-open it at some point. #-/