Description: That is to say that if I have two documents open, with different styles, each having a docked Sidebar, both Sidebars show the styles of the active document. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a document with styles 2. Open another document with different styles 3. Ensure that the sidebar is open and visible in both windows 4. Observe the styles as focus changes from one window to the other Actual Results: Both sidebars show the styles belonging to the active window Expected Results: Each sidebar to show the style belonging to the document in each window Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No OpenGL enabled: Yes Additional Info: Version: 7.1.3.2 / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 10(Build:2) CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.12; UI render: default; VCL: kf5 Locale: en-GB (en_GB.UTF-8); UI: en-US Ubuntu package version: 1:7.1.3-0ubuntu0.21.04.1 Calc: threaded
Created attachment 172709 [details] Peek recording of styles changing
My observation in Version: 7.1.4.2 (x64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: a529a4fab45b75fefc5b6226684193eb000654f6 CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19043; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: de-DE (de_DE); UI: en-GB Calc: CL If document 1 is the active document, style preview disappears in document 2 and vice versa. For me that might be the expected behaviour, because it makes it more visible what the active document is. But as far as i can see from the screencast, your example behaves different.
It would make sense if it was a MDI or tabbed interface, where I might be switching between different documents in the same parent LibreOffice Writer window. In the SDI, the expectation is for each Window to represent the Document. This behaviour is not evident when looking at the Navigator, Properties, Page or Style Inspector. I also re-checked the issue and it's still evident - so not an intermittent problem. Making it disappear sounds like a temporary patch (if intended) - the other tools (Navigator, Properties, Page, Style Inspector) do not disappear, so the disappearing styles could equally be a bug since that behaviour is at odds with the rest of the interface.
Let's ask design team what the expected behaviour is cc: Design-Team
That's indeed an unfortunate side-effect. We could add a dropdown showing the open documents like in the Navigator but preferably each sidebar relates it's own document. Meaning the focus remains active. Sounds like a fundamental question and I wonder if any change is possible here. Mike, your wisdom is needed.
We discussed the issue in the design meeting. Looking at the Navigator's selector it must be possible to keep the reference at the document.
*** Bug 138530 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***