Bug 104368

Summary:	With GTK3 port, floating search bar textentry widget can never get focused
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Jeff Fortin Tam <nekohayo>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Caolán McNamara <caolan.mcnamara>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major	CC:	caolan.mcnamara, xiscofauli
Priority:	medium
Version:	5.2.0.0.alpha0+
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux (All)
See Also:	https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148104
Whiteboard:	target:6.0.0
Crash report or crash signature:		Regression By:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	103182

Description Jeff Fortin Tam 2016-12-03 04:40:47 UTC

Description:
As title says.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Ctrl+F in any libreoffice app
2. Detach the search toolbar into a floating toolbar

Actual Results:  
You can't type anything into the search bar, even if you click it, hit ctrl+F again, etc.

Expected Results:
It should work.


Reproducible: Always

User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0

Comment 1 Xisco Faulí 2016-12-05 19:38:00 UTC

Confirmed in

Version: 5.4.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 18b3138a7ac4da823e41640bed8a4707029b8fb0
CPU Threads: 4; OS Version: Linux 4.8; UI Render: default; VCL: gtk3; 
Locale: ca-ES (ca_ES.UTF-8); Calc: group

Comment 2 Caolán McNamara 2017-07-25 12:29:10 UTC

under wayland the toolbars can't "float" so this problem can only arises under X

Comment 3 Commit Notification 2017-07-25 13:02:04 UTC

Caolán McNamara committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=59e370f65369f345e8c505bb0b156d53d4b83acc

Resolves: tdf#104368 allow toolbars to have keyboard focus

It will be available in 6.0.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.

Comment 4 Jeff Fortin Tam 2022-03-20 22:20:09 UTC

Hi Caolán, maybe you will be interested in bug #148104; I'm not sure if it's specific to the GTK3 version or if all toolkits are similarly affected though.