Bug 126052 - Can't drag the color picker window out of my way
Summary: Can't drag the color picker window out of my way
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
6.0.7.3 release
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
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Reported: 2019-06-23 04:03 UTC by Dr. Pam Halton
Modified: 2020-05-27 19:12 UTC (History)
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Description Dr. Pam Halton 2019-06-23 04:03:33 UTC
From the highlight color button on the toolbar, you Left click on custom color. That opens a window called "Pick a color". If you click on the top bar of the window, it won't let you drag the window to the side so you can see what colors you highlighted in your document.

Someone on Ubuntu suggested this was because the color picker window is modal and asked me if I would file an upstream bug report to TDF (The Document Foundation) asking if it was modal by design or not and if yes, asking is it necessary that it stays modal? Would TDF consider changing it to not be modal?

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(***PS I was able to shut off the modal property by installing GNOME Tweaks from a terminal window

sudo apt update
sudo apt gnome-tweak-tool

then shutting the terminal window

then opening a new terminal window and typing 
gnome-tweaks 
(to run the program)

From inside Tweaks:
click on Windows
turn the Attach Modal Dialogs button to "off" ***)
Comment 1 Dieter 2019-06-23 06:17:24 UTC
Thank you for reporting the bug. But I can't confirm this with

Version: 6.2.5.1 (x64)
Build-ID: 9a940173fab1747f02322bc89779759d52b3a086
CPU-Threads: 4; BS: Windows 10.0; UI-Render: Standard; VCL: win; 
Gebietsschema: de-DE (de_DE); UI-Sprache: de-DE
Calc: threaded

and also not with

Version: 6.4.0.0.alpha0+ (x64)
Build ID: b170256fb6ebaf774b02b89835b19d9f3a1afb89
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0; UI render: GL; VCL: win; 
TinderBox: Win-x86_64@42, Branch:master, Time: 2019-06-07_03:30:35
Locale: de-DE (de_DE); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded

It seems you're using an old version of LibreOffice. Could you please try to reproduce it with the latest version of LibreOffice from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/ ? I have set the bug's status to 'NEEDINFO'. Please change it back to 'UNCONFIRMED' if the bug is still present in the latest version. Change to RESOLVED WORKSFORME, if the problem went away.
Comment 2 QA Administrators 2019-12-21 03:33:35 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2020-01-21 03:32:49 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 Dr. Pam Halton 2020-05-27 13:40:47 UTC
Hi. 


I've been complaining to my friend who is a developer for more than 1 year now that when Ubuntu would update itself, it was never properly updating LibreOffice and I was also not being successful to separately try to update LibreOffice to the current "still" version. Yes I know the Document Foundation doesn't use that term anymore. Finally, I got my friend to help me with it recently. It turned out that every time the system updated, it was still using an old PPA of LibreOffice and always overwriting or over ruling any other updated possibility.

This was why I was unable to update LibreOffice to reconfirm any bugs. I'm sorry for that. I just couldn't figure out what the system was doing to prevent LibreOffice from updating.

Thanks, ph
Comment 5 Dr. Pam Halton 2020-05-27 13:43:53 UTC
With the version of Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS and the version of LibreOffice 6.3.5.2 that bug is no longer occurring, as of this morning May 27, 2020. Thanks.
Comment 6 Dieter 2020-05-27 19:12:17 UTC
(In reply to Dr. Pam Halton from comment #5)
> With the version of Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS and the version of LibreOffice
> 6.3.5.2 that bug is no longer occurring, as of this morning May 27, 2020.
> Thanks.

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