Bug 147808 - Documentation refers to View | Split Window
Summary: Documentation refers to View | Split Window
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.4.0.0 alpha0+
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Blocks: Help-Changes-Menu Help-Changes-Features
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Reported: 2022-03-06 17:19 UTC by Eyal Rozenberg
Modified: 2022-05-31 14:42 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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2022-03-06 19:30 UTC, Julien Nabet
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Description Eyal Rozenberg 2022-03-06 17:19:11 UTC
The LO documentation for v7.4 says:

https://help.libreoffice.org/7.4/en-US/text/scalc/01/07080000.html?&DbPAR=SHARED&System=UNIX

that you can split your window in two by choosing View | Split Windows or dragging the thick black line at the top of the vertical scrollbar.

Neither of these two UI elements are available.

Frankly, I think they should just be available, but this is just a bug about the discrepancy of the documentation and the app.

I'd also appreciate a link to the bug which tracked the removal of the actual split capability.
Comment 1 Julien Nabet 2022-03-06 19:30:48 UTC
Created attachment 178685 [details]
screenshot

On pc Debian x86-64 gtk3 with master sources updated today, no pb to split window on Calc.
Comment 2 Julien Nabet 2022-03-06 19:42:07 UTC
About discrepancy of the documentation, you can try to contribute by taking a look here:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation, there are parts which explain how to contribute.
Comment 3 Eyal Rozenberg 2022-03-06 20:01:08 UTC
Hmm. On this page:

https://help.libreoffice.org/7.4/en-US/text/scalc/01/07080000.html?&DbPAR=SHARED&System=UNIX

the header says "Writer"; and this is a Writer bug. But I see that the URL mentions calc for some reason. Weird.

Anyway, I feel I do enough work reporting bugs and triaging RTL, Hebrew and Arabic bugs. Let other people work on the documentation :-P
Comment 4 Julien Nabet 2022-03-06 20:41:29 UTC
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #3)
> Hmm. On this page:
> 
> https://help.libreoffice.org/7.4/en-US/text/scalc/01/07080000.
> html?&DbPAR=SHARED&System=UNIX
> 
> the header says "Writer"; and this is a Writer bug. But I see that the URL
> mentions calc for some reason. Weird.
Yes, I just noticed scalc in the url, so I used Calc.
Olivier: any idea here?

> 
> Anyway, I feel I do enough work reporting bugs and triaging RTL, Hebrew and
> Arabic bugs. Let other people work on the documentation :-P
Ok.

1) I didn't tell it explicitely in my previous comment but I don't think there's any discrepancy here. Try to respect the work made by people. I mean, dealing with documentation of an app is not easy and quite tedious. Moreover LO is quite big and there are removing, changing, adding code quite often, it's quite difficult to be up-to-date.

2) Before telling "I'd also appreciate a link to the bug which tracked the removal of the actual split capability.", at least wait for the confirmation of the bug. I don't know about if there was this feature on Writer but it's present on Calc. So perhaps the only bug here seems to be the wrong "Writer" category instead of "Calc".

Now yes there are a lot of pbs in LO because it lacks a lot of people helping in different parts:
- Base coding
- Removing Java part
- accessibility support
- documentation
- MacOs support (with the arrival of new security features + Arm processor, it's a mess)
- support of Thunderbird address book (nowadays Thunderbird uses Sqlite instead of Mork but LO doesn't deal with Sqlite so it's not possible anymore to use TB address book)
- Writer layout management
and certainly many others

so being despising won't help to improve situation.
Comment 5 Timur 2022-05-31 14:24:21 UTC
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #3)
> Hmm. On this page:
> https://help.libreoffice.org/7.4/en-US/text/scalc/01/07080000.
> html?&DbPAR=SHARED&System=UNIX
> the header says "Writer"; and this is a Writer bug.

No split in Writer. And no Writer in that Help. NAB
Comment 6 Buovjaga 2022-05-31 14:42:50 UTC
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #3)
> Hmm. On this page:
> 
> https://help.libreoffice.org/7.4/en-US/text/scalc/01/07080000.
> html?&DbPAR=SHARED&System=UNIX
> 
> the header says "Writer"; and this is a Writer bug. But I see that the URL
> mentions calc for some reason. Weird.
> 
> Anyway, I feel I do enough work reporting bugs and triaging RTL, Hebrew and
> Arabic bugs. Let other people work on the documentation :-P

The header of the bookmarks says Writer because of the SHARED URL parameter. All search results are displayed.