When working with many windows one sometimes the most convenient way to bring Calc to the foreground is to click on the footer (titlebar not visible etc). Unfortunately any part of the footer area not containing a control defaults to Insert Sheet, spawning a dialogue that must be cleared in order to continue work. Expected behavior: clicking a blank area in the footer has no impact beyond bringing the window to focus. Insert Sheet is called by clicking the + sign.
Could you please create a screenshot or screencast showing the problem? It's unclear to me what the problem is here.
Created attachment 136342 [details] Short clip demonstrating the problem In the attached clip I'm demonstrating the issue - Calc is running behind a Konsole window. I show two ways of switching focus to Calc without triggering the problem before clicking in the region where the Insert Sheet dialogue is improperly called. I then demonstrate by clicking the + sign the right place to call that dialogue (or perhaps just from Insert... Sheet). The bottom of the main window shouldn't trigger a modal window unless a specific widget is selected. The current behavior is unexpected and intrusive.
Reproducible with LO 5.4.1 from Ubuntu PPA, 5.4.3.0.0+ and master both built at home under Ubuntu 16.04 x86-64. I agree that that is an unexpected behavior. Setting as NEW. Best regards. JBF
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This bug should be simple to solve: - if the bottom bar it is suposed to be used to add sheets, this is not a bug, and the person who want to focus on another window should click on sheets not at bottom, as he did in the video at first. - if the bottom bar it is NOT suposed to be used to add sheets that function should be removed from the bar and let only to the plus sign.
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Still reproducible in Version: 6.3.4.0.0+ Build ID: edcb363f5eeefcc2ce28a2ab7a57d61b744466cd Threads CPU : 4; OS : Linux 4.15; UI Render : par défaut; VCL: gtk3; Ubuntu_18.04_x86-64 Locale : fr-FR (fr_FR.UTF-8); Langue IHM : fr-FR Calc: threaded Best regards. JBF
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Still reproducible with LO 7.2 and current master. Best regards. JBF
I agree with JBF, it's not common. If more than one sheet is selected, clicking the empty area deselects (see https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=70320). I think we can keep this function. Code pointer is ScTabControl::MouseButtonUp() in sc/source/ui/view/tabcont.cxx, task is to remove FID_INS_TABLE.
I would like to work on this. Assigning it to myself, thanks.
Radhey Parekh committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/4114218584bca3267aff474a7b55a9d5891fcce6 tdf#112417 Insert Sheet called when clicking anywhere on the footer It will be available in 7.6.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Now, clicking in the footer doesn't trigger a new sheet. It's ok. Verified with Version: 7.6.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 24c9373409dda957ad6e1f1b4e3ec6c7135ecf1a CPU threads: 16; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: ro-RO (ro_RO.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded