Bug 145170 - Anomalous Behaviour Concerning Mixing Ctrl+F5 Keyboard Shortcut and Hide/Show Panel Button
Summary: Anomalous Behaviour Concerning Mixing Ctrl+F5 Keyboard Shortcut and Hide/Show...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
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7.2.1.2 release
Hardware: All All
: low minor
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Blocks: Shortcuts-Accelerators
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Reported: 2021-10-16 15:20 UTC by Radish
Modified: 2023-02-21 09:35 UTC (History)
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Description Radish 2021-10-16 15:20:49 UTC
In Writer there are several ways that the Sidebar Panel can be hidden or shown. One of those ways is to use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+F5 to toggle Hide/Show. Another way is to use the Panel Hide/Show button. However, there is what I would think is anomalous behaviour if these two methods are mixed as follows:

1. Hide the Panel using the Hide/Show button. This retracts the entire Panel with exception that the Hide/Show button is still visible.

2. Now lets say you want to open the Panel again but this time you use the Ctrl+F5 keyboard shortcut to show the Panel. What actually happens is as follows:

(a) The first press of Ctrl+F5 causes the Panel to fully retract i.e. the Panel Hide/Show button is retracted.

(b) You think something is wrong as you wanted to show the Panel so you press Ctrl+F5 a second time and then the Panel extends outwards and is shown again (which was what you were trying to achieve at the outset).

So it would seem that the Ctrl+F5 shortcut interprets a Panel hidden via the Panel Hide/Show button as being a Panel that is not in fact hidden at all. So, in that instance the first Ctrl+F5 keypress hides the Panel.

I don't think things should be happening in that way. Ctrl+F5 routine should recognise when the panel has already been hidden by the Panel Hide/Show button and should show the full Panel on the first Ctrl+F5 keypress. I would regard that as 'expected behaviour'.

The same 'issue' occurs in at least Calc, Draw and Impress.
Comment 1 Radish 2021-10-16 15:24:33 UTC
I should add that I'm a relatively new user of LibreOffice and that I really don't know if LibreOffice 7.2.1.2 is the earliest version which is affected by this behaviour. (Apologies.)
Comment 2 Amaury FO 2022-10-14 13:26:45 UTC
In the French version, the shortcut [Alt Gr]+[2] to make a tilde (~) does not work, but opens or closes the styles pane.
Comment 3 Buovjaga 2023-02-21 09:35:30 UTC
Repro

Arch Linux 64-bit, X11
Version: 7.6.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 0bcce236059ae68c6dcc7bce8ceaec5d39c28f1c
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.1; UI render: default; VCL: kf5 (cairo+xcb)
Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Built on 21 February 2023