Steps: 1) Open the start center in recent files view 2) Click Templates > Manage Templates 3) Notice that it switches the start center to templates view before opening the template Version: 5.3.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: 139d3b3e8b157c1f365f888126269f0902acbaa2 CPU Threads: 2; OS Version: Linux 3.19; UI Render: default; TinderBox: Linux-rpm_deb-x86_64@70-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2016-08-26_00:01:39 Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); Calc: group
Reproducible in LO 5.2.0. Not sure if it is a bug. Best regards. JBF
I'd classify it as a bug as doing File > New > Templates in the start center doesnt have the same behaviour.
Akshay Deep committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=f10549961983b10148ba9ffe91a5e6c19bde909f tdf#101812 Opening template manager switches to templates view in start center It will be available in 5.3.0. 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.
@Akshay Deep: thank you very much for this fix. It works as expected in the master. Do you plan to backport it to 5.2 branch? Best regards. JBF
Patch couldnt be backported by gerrit, so i had to do it manually. https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/28808/
Yousuf Philips committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-5-2": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=937a284ebfe1261e4b7666e4c1d2b8f9677c1763&h=libreoffice-5-2 tdf#101812 Dont switch to templates view when opening template manager It will be available in 5.2.3. 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.