Bug 117717 - Position of Find All search result window isn't remembered
Summary: Position of Find All search result window isn't remembered
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
unspecified
Hardware: All All
: low enhancement
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: 156122 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: Find-Search
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Reported: 2018-05-20 22:58 UTC by Thomas Lendo
Modified: 2023-07-10 09:44 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description Thomas Lendo 2018-05-20 22:58:47 UTC
The position of the Find All search result window isn't remembered when closed and reopened. This is different to other windows like Options dialog.

The reason for this enhancement request (or bug?) is that it's bad usability if the window always opens above the content cells and the user has to move it manually away -- every time the window opens as it's the case for one of my files.

Expected result:
Window remembers last closing position and opens there.
Or the window doesn't open above a result cell and the window is moving automatically when clicking on a result item that is beneath the dialog window.
Comment 1 Buovjaga 2018-06-15 18:51:21 UTC
Repro.

Arch Linux 64-bit
Version: 6.2.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 0d2c5e0838906101e1fdea93b4a0c422690e331c
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 4.16; UI render: default; VCL: kde4; 
Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI.UTF-8); Calc: group threaded
Built on June 15th 2018
Comment 2 Heiko Tietze 2023-04-26 09:01:24 UTC
KDE only, I guess (made the sort dialog resizable for bug 153852 and faced the erratic position issue- size is retained but position not; gtk3 works perfectly).

A lot of similar tickets: bug 128174, bug 46106, bug 151676, bug 141792, bug 137471... Stephane, please have a look and consolidate perhaps.

Michael, Caolan: IIRC we had a discussion some time ago.
Comment 3 Michael Weghorn 2023-04-26 10:33:02 UTC
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #2)
> KDE only, I guess (made the sort dialog resizable for bug 153852 and faced
> the erratic position issue- size is retained but position not; gtk3 works
> perfectly).
> 
> A lot of similar tickets: bug 128174, bug 46106, bug 151676, bug 141792, bug
> 137471... Stephane, please have a look and consolidate perhaps.

The kf5-specific part indeed sounds like a duplicate of tdf#137471, behavior seems to be the same in a quick test.


> Michael, Caolan: IIRC we had a discussion some time ago.

What I remember/found is the discussion in tdf#137471 and https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/105298 .

FWIW, https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/135082 has some more infos and IIRC a previous patch set of that Gerrit change fixed the positioning on kf5, but had other issues, and the version that was finally merged didn't fix the positioning any more and had other issues, was therefore reverted in

    commit f51b220b953ec71fb742f799fbe645a93cf3d944
    Date:   Fri Mar 24 08:06:56 2023 +0100
    
        tdf#149805 tdf#151677 tdf#152217 tdf#154043 tdf#153458 tdf#153800 Revert "VCL expect
Comment 4 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-07-04 13:26:06 UTC
Thomas, you never reported which OS/DE was used. Do you remember? Can you still reproduced?
Comment 5 ady 2023-07-04 16:50:15 UTC
*** Bug 156122 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Thomas Lendo 2023-07-09 21:41:22 UTC
It's still there as described in 2018.

Tested with
Version: 24.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 77fca616e0bd79e0b405fd0b3543cf8e94e15df3
CPU threads: 2; OS: Linux 5.8; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
on Ubuntu/Gnome

Maybe it's a Linux problem but I can't say it doesn't exist on other OS.
Comment 7 ady 2023-07-10 00:18:35 UTC
(In reply to Thomas Lendo from comment #6)

> Maybe it's a Linux problem

It happens on MS Windows too. The results window is always displayed at the center of the screen after it was moved in the prior run (i.e. its position is reset, not remembered).
Comment 8 Colin 2023-07-10 06:46:42 UTC
(In reply to ady from comment #7)
> (In reply to Thomas Lendo from comment #6)
> 
> > Maybe it's a Linux problem
> 
> It happens on MS Windows too. The results window is always displayed at the
> center of the screen after it was moved in the prior run (i.e. its position
> is reset, not remembered).

Are you verifying that it's the only response pane in the entire LO suite that behaves in this manner and it is intentional?
Comment 9 ady 2023-07-10 09:39:47 UTC
(In reply to Colin from comment #8)
> Are you verifying that it's the only response pane in the entire LO suite
> that behaves in this manner and it is intentional?

In comment 7 I partially quoted comment 6, adding info: the behavior described in this report is not limited to Linux, as it can also be replicated on MS Windows.

I have said nothing about being intentional (IDK), nor limited to this window only, as I have not tested anything else except the reported behavior in this particular report.
Comment 10 Colin 2023-07-10 09:44:32 UTC
(In reply to ady from comment #9)
> (In reply to Colin from comment #8)
> > Are you verifying that it's the only response pane in the entire LO suite
> > that behaves in this manner and it is intentional?
> 
> In comment 7 I partially quoted comment 6, adding info: the behavior
> described in this report is not limited to Linux, as it can also be
> replicated on MS Windows.
> 
> I have said nothing about being intentional (IDK), nor limited to this
> window only, as I have not tested anything else except the reported behavior
> in this particular report.

Your comments are presenting as if you believe it to be intentional in this pane and that you support that scenario.