In a Writer document, open File -> Properties, thene switch to Custom Properties tab. Press Add Property, which adds a new entry. The focus should move to the Name field of the fresh entry, but it doesn't. Observed using LO 7.0.0.0.alpha0+ (4ba1909f12b49f020195b5e767045340717ce6df), 6.0.0.3 / Ubuntu. It works fine in 5.4.0.3. => regression This started from the following commit: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=272a96da03522a82db4185e7858d05375f3ea95e author Szymon Kłos <szymon.klos@collabora.com> 2017-11-07 20:39:06 +0100 committer Szymon Kłos <szymon.klos@collabora.com> 2017-11-08 09:50:14 +0100 "tdf#100922 Refactor Custom Properties page" The code change should probably make the last visible entry get focused after this line: https://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/sfx2/source/dialog/dinfdlg.cxx?r=bedba76a#1459 The CreateNewLine() function focuses the newly created entry, but that isn't much relevant after the performance fix.
Proposed patch: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/115872 I think with the refactoring of the dialog even another problem arised (Bug 142396).
Andreas Heinisch committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/629fe3a8e6fdf1602add0803b7d06e70215cda33 tdf#132667 - Grab focus on the last inserted property It will be available in 7.2.0. 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.