There is a bug in the way enabled states are handled for 'Find Next' and 'Find Previous' in the Find toolbar. I have committed a patch that corrects this and adds the same enabled state dependency to 'Find All'. It can be found at https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/41264/ Change-Id: I01d4f0effaa343e1498d9610755b256761dacfd7
Not sure I see this bug - can you expand what's wrong with current behaviour?
Created attachment 135990 [details] visual of findbar items to show enable issue
The intent of the code is to enable/disable the Previous and Next command items but the Next and Find all command items are being enabled/disabled. Screenshot1.png shows only the placeholder text entered in the Find box. The Previous item is enabled. The Next and Find all command items are disabled.
Jim Raykowski committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=b816e24ac1dd7d725ff2ec33f9aa913a2c7b68c4 tdf#112199 Fix and extend enabled state for items in find toolbar 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.
Confirmed fix. Arch Linux 64-bit, KDE Plasma 5 Version: 6.0.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: a27eb931c22313d4dd5c73b35358c0532d20b79e CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 4.12; UI render: default; VCL: kde4; Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI.UTF-8); Calc: group Built on September 8th 2017