Bug 150184 - LibreOffice not being updated when I change a setting in the preferences window
Summary: LibreOffice not being updated when I change a setting in the preferences window
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
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7.3.4.2 release
Hardware: All macOS (All)
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Reported: 2022-07-28 12:12 UTC by Zamil
Modified: 2023-07-12 03:14 UTC (History)
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Description Zamil 2022-07-28 12:12:02 UTC
Description:
Hello. Today I have a pretty annoying bug in LibreOffice. its that when I change ANY settings in the preferences window, LibreOffice doesn't change anything. I also double checked it by changing the LibreOffice theme from white to dark. and when I restarted LibreOffice.. well nothing changed.
I didn't enable OpenGL or OpenCL. I even tried googling it and nothing is helpful to me

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open LibreOffice
2.Open Preferences window and change any settings
3.Restart LibreOffice if required, or wait for the changes to be applied

Actual Results:
The setting that you changed should be immediately noticeable to you.
some settings like disabling hardware acceleration requires a restart. so when you restart it should work


Expected Results:
After I changed a setting like the icon theme. I didn't see the updated icon theme 
I also tried to change the colour of LibreOffice from white to black. but nothing happened when I did


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
The software should have immediately changed the settings
Comment 1 Zamil 2022-07-28 12:35:53 UTC
(In reply to Zamil from comment #0)
> Ok some settings are being changed when I enabled it. so I tried changing 'Use LibreOffice Dialogs' and it actually worked.
Comment 2 V Stuart Foote 2022-07-29 14:01:06 UTC
Can not confirm on Windows builds. When in a module other than Start Center changes (e.g. Tools -> Options -> View -> 'Icon style') are applied as the Options dialog is 'OK' & closed (from Start Center on launch of a app module, or restart).

Version: 7.3.4.2 (x64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 728fec16bd5f605073805c3c9e7c4212a0120dc5
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19044; UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

or with a nightly against 7.5.0

Version: 7.5.0.0.alpha0+ (x64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 4827d5cb1508f6bca9489e31b877cfff36393c50
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19044; UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 3 Zamil 2022-08-02 05:07:04 UTC
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #2)
> Can not confirm on Windows builds. When in a module other than Start Center
> changes (e.g. Tools -> Options -> View -> 'Icon style') are applied as the
> Options dialog is 'OK' & closed (from Start Center on launch of a app
> module, or restart).
> 
> Version: 7.3.4.2 (x64) / LibreOffice Community
> Build ID: 728fec16bd5f605073805c3c9e7c4212a0120dc5
> CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19044; UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL:
> win
> Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
> Calc: threaded
> 
> or with a nightly against 7.5.0
> 
> Version: 7.5.0.0.alpha0+ (x64) / LibreOffice Community
> Build ID: 4827d5cb1508f6bca9489e31b877cfff36393c50
> CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19044; UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL:
> win
> Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
> Calc: threaded

Hello, I found the problem why the settings were not being updated. Its probably because of the trackpad issue on my MacBook Pro
I have another issue tho, when I check the 'Use Hardware Acceleration' option and click of it unchecks itself. I have an intel iris plus graphics card. why's that?
Comment 4 V Stuart Foote 2022-08-02 13:07:36 UTC
(In reply to Zamil from comment #3)
> (In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #2)
> > Can not confirm on Windows builds. When in a module other than Start Center
> > changes (e.g. Tools -> Options -> View -> 'Icon style') are applied as the
> > Options dialog is 'OK' & closed (from Start Center on launch of a app
> > module, or restart).
> > 
> > Version: 7.3.4.2 (x64) / LibreOffice Community
> > Build ID: 728fec16bd5f605073805c3c9e7c4212a0120dc5
> > CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19044; UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL:
> > win
> > Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
> > Calc: threaded
> > 
> > or with a nightly against 7.5.0
> > 
> > Version: 7.5.0.0.alpha0+ (x64) / LibreOffice Community
> > Build ID: 4827d5cb1508f6bca9489e31b877cfff36393c50
> > CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19044; UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL:
> > win
> > Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
> > Calc: threaded
> 
> Hello, I found the problem why the settings were not being updated. Its
> probably because of the trackpad issue on my MacBook Pro
> I have another issue tho, when I check the 'Use Hardware Acceleration'
> option and click of it unchecks itself. I have an intel iris plus graphics
> card. why's that?

I don't know for sure on macOS, but on Windows builds the 'Use hardware acceleration' checkbox is non-responsive while the 'Use Skia for all rendering' is enabled. Which is consistent.

IIUC, there are three rendering modes--CPU only, CPU w/HA, GPU (Skia) [with or without Vulkan via its two checkboxes].  The 'Use hardware acceleration' controls the CPU only vs. CPU w/HA. It has no function when Skia is enabled and on Windows builds is checked enabled by default and is greyed out.
Comment 5 steve 2022-12-12 14:03:44 UTC
Cannot reproduce for icon theme or Application Colors when a document is open in LibreOffice.

The only place I am not seeing the changes reflected is Start Center for which I filed https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152485

@zamil: Could you please try this with a current main build and let us know if this is persisting for you. Also which macOS version are you running?
Comment 6 QA Administrators 2023-06-11 03:13:12 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 7 QA Administrators 2023-07-12 03:14:36 UTC
Dear Zamil,

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