Bug 121175 - Enabling italic/underline/bold in floating sidebar window has no effect
Summary: Enabling italic/underline/bold in floating sidebar window has no effect
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
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Blocks: Navigator
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Reported: 2018-11-05 14:05 UTC by Telesto
Modified: 2023-11-27 20:12 UTC (History)
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Description Telesto 2018-11-05 14:05:08 UTC 
Description:
Enabling italic/underline/bold in floating sidebar window has no effect

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Writer
2. Type BB
3. Go Properties deck in with a floating window
4. Press BOLD button in the floating bar
5. Click at the place where you stopped typing (probably not actually how its intended)
6. Start typing (no bold)

Variant
1. Select BB
2. Press Italic in the floating toolbar
3. Switch to the main document
4. Press CTRL+I (BB is regular, but floating toolbar still shows I highlighted)

Actual Results:
Enabling italic/underline/bold in floating sidebar window has no effect

Expected Results:
Should be working, I think


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
Version: 6.2.0.0.alpha1+
Build ID: 4fa9e6f7f891b335ae1b432e0848c1e46c8fe3ef
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 6.3; UI render: default; VCL: win; 
TinderBox: Win-x86@42, Branch:master, Time: 2018-10-30_22:44:48
Locale: nl-NL (nl_NL); Calc: CL

and in
Versie: 4.4.7.2 
Build ID: f3153a8b245191196a4b6b9abd1d0da16eead600
Locale: nl_NL
Comment 1 Telesto 2018-11-05 14:08:00 UTC 
BTW, I prefer the behavior of the floating "Font color" window above the floating Sidebar behavior (which the focus mess)
Comment 2 raal 2018-11-05 15:02:50 UTC 
Confirm with version 4.4 and 6.2; win7
Comment 3 Xisco Faulí 2018-11-05 15:44:07 UTC 
No need to undock the toolbar, same behaviour if I click on the bold icon, then I set the caret at the end of my text and I type again...

I'm wondering if this is the expected behaviour as LibreOffice takes the format from the current position when we click on the document...

Reproduced back to 

LibreOffice 3.3.0 
OOO330m19 (Build:6)
tag libreoffice-3.3.0.4
Comment 4 Telesto 2018-11-05 16:22:35 UTC 
(In reply to Xisco Faulí from comment #3)
> No need to undock the toolbar, same behaviour if I click on the bold icon,
> then I set the caret at the end of my text and I type again...

Indeed, I missed that

> I'm wondering if this is the expected behaviour as LibreOffice takes the
> format from the current position when we click on the document...

Possibly. The core problem is the focus issue (at least how I see it). When clicking an item (say bold) inside a the floating sidebar, the main window loses focus (gray). I'm always click inside the document to recover the focus. Which disables BOLD. 

The current way to recover the focus properly
1. Press CTRL+F6 (see bug 120231 comment 1)
2. Click Main window gray bar (to grab focus)

Both options are not obvious in IMHO. I prefer the behavior of the floating "Font color" or the Font work toolbar
Comment 5 QA Administrators 2019-11-06 03:31:04 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 6 QA Administrators 2021-11-06 03:54:39 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 7 QA Administrators 2023-11-07 03:14:24 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 8 BogdanB 2023-11-27 20:12:25 UTC 
Repro in
Version: 24.2.0.0.alpha1+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: c8f7408db73d2f2ccacb25a2b4fef8dfebdfc6cb
CPU threads: 16; OS: Linux 6.2; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: ro-RO (ro_RO.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

Undocking - not working.
Docked - working.