Bug 150779 - kf5 - Opening LO only shows left pane of start screen, no recent documents visible (LO 7.4 only)
Summary: kf5 - Opening LO only shows left pane of start screen, no recent documents vi...
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.4.0.3 release
Hardware: All Linux (All)
: medium minor
Assignee: Michael Weghorn
URL:
Whiteboard: target:7.4.2
Keywords: bibisected, bisected, regression
: 150988 151067 151414 151450 151493 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: KDE, KF5
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Reported: 2022-09-04 16:17 UTC by Robert Großkopf
Modified: 2022-11-24 22:22 UTC (History)
15 users (show)

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Screenshot of opened LO - no recent documents available (37.97 KB, image/png)
2022-09-04 16:17 UTC, Robert Großkopf
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Description Robert Großkopf 2022-09-04 16:17:06 UTC
Created attachment 182204 [details]
Screenshot of opened LO - no recent documents available

Open LO 7.4.1.1. 
Every time it opens with a small part of the screen. No "Recent documents" in main screens are available.
Have tested with new profile: Only the fist time LO starts will normal (nearly full) screen. Second start will show only the left pane of the screen.

Screenshot added.

Version: 7.4.1.1 / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 0a046a10cbf1679eea5538bd3ab63156caa3a036
CPU threads: 6; OS: Linux 5.3; UI render: default; VCL: kf5 (cairo+xcb)
Locale: de-DE (de_DE.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 V Stuart Foote 2022-09-04 16:58:01 UTC
No issue on Windows builds, StartCenter is populated with thumbnails of MRU history entries taken from profile

Version: 7.4.1.1 (x64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 0a046a10cbf1679eea5538bd3ab63156caa3a036
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19044; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 2 Timur 2022-09-09 09:42:59 UTC
At first I didn't reproduce with current 7.4 as kf5. But when I did with older 7.4 I saw it also with current 7.4. 
Luckily not with master 7.5+. I close as WFM. 
Please test yourself, easy as Appimage per  https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel/Linux
Comment 3 Timur 2022-09-09 09:58:37 UTC
In addition to testing with master, please search existing bugs and for kf5 set bug 102495 in Blocks. That focuses bug as general testers that look for unconfirmed bugs may not have KDE etc.
Comment 4 Robert Großkopf 2022-09-09 10:17:11 UTC
(In reply to Timur from comment #2)
> At first I didn't reproduce with current 7.4 as kf5. But when I did with
> older 7.4 I saw it also with current 7.4. 
> Luckily not with master 7.5+. I close as WFM. 
> Please test yourself, easy as Appimage per 
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel/Linux

I have installed many versions parallel. So I could test this again and again with a new profile.
First start will work with LO 7.4.1.1.
Closing LO and reopening will show the bug.

This bug isn't solved in any way.
Comment 5 Xisco Faulí 2022-09-13 14:07:32 UTC
@Ilmari, @Michael, any chance you could bisect this issue on your side ?
Comment 6 Xisco Faulí 2022-09-13 14:13:16 UTC
I'm wondering whether this issue was introduced by https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?h=libreoffice-7-4&id=105d129683b0e88bbb8e682d308786a587aa895f
Comment 7 Xisco Faulí 2022-09-13 14:27:20 UTC
Regression introduced by:

author	Jan-Marek Glogowski <glogow@fbihome.de>	2022-06-02 22:42:20 +0200
committer	Jan-Marek Glogowski <glogow@fbihome.de>	2022-06-08 18:17:17 +0200
commit ea5a0918c8c32309821ab239c4b95f4d6a3b5c12 (patch)
tree 04ff84b7c076a2f178e90d0eb32eb1731b10fd3c
parent d4123356c61db269651e950a0a2cc93e6d801c90 (diff)
VCL add vcl::WindowPosSize abstract class

Bisected with: bibisect-linux64-7.4

Adding Cc: to Jan-Marek Glogowski
Comment 8 Xisco Faulí 2022-09-13 14:33:35 UTC
In master, the issue got fixed by 

author	Luboš Luňák <l.lunak@collabora.com>	2022-06-09 18:23:44 +0200
committer	Luboš Luňák <l.lunak@collabora.com>	2022-06-13 10:36:15 +0200
commit b7b06f28d5728c2c33c073df35ac0c3bcc51e583 (patch)
tree 0d1d84194ade8b3cd8598c80ab6e763649906b84
parent 930ba0c1ec9620641f58573d4bcdb9755be94d11 (diff)
avoid uninitialized data when handling WindowState

But this patch got reverted in libreoffice-7-4 because of bug 150236
Comment 9 Michael Weghorn 2022-09-14 06:34:32 UTC
I have difficulties reproducing this, but I sometimes see Writer or Base starting minimized when the window was maximized on closing in the previous run with the libreoffice-7-4 branch as of commit 23d607b104013e412295ac83956edc74e94ed2df.

Given that ea5a0918c8c32309821ab239c4b95f4d6a3b5c12 mentions it "Should mostly be a refactoring" and nothing on 7-4 depends on it (except for a single place that was using the new name of a flag), reverting the commit on 7-4 only seems to be the easiest way forward to me.

Suggested Gerrit change:
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/139903
Comment 10 Xisco Faulí 2022-09-14 06:54:14 UTC
Hi Michael,
as mentioned in IRC:
<buovjaga> x1sc0: I am investigating tdf#150856 Have to be careful as the profile has to be cleared with each bisect and the test performed twice
Comment 11 Robert Großkopf 2022-09-14 07:05:48 UTC
Tested this again: Bug appears only if LO has been maximized before closing. Doesn't recognize this, because I'm only working with LO maximized.
Comment 12 Michael Weghorn 2022-09-14 07:19:27 UTC
(In reply to Xisco Faulí from comment #10)
> Hi Michael,
> as mentioned in IRC:
> <buovjaga> x1sc0: I am investigating tdf#150856 Have to be careful as the
> profile has to be cleared with each bisect and the test performed twice

@Xisco: Thanks, also for the detailed analysis above!
I had read Ilmari's bug 150856 comment 11 but used the seemingly simpler scenario described in the bug description in tdf#150856 ("Same behavior when starting Tools → Macros → Edit Macros in Base.") but that still wasn't reliably reproducible with a cleared user profile and testing twice.
However, testing the original scenario in tdf#150856 with a cleared user profile and opening the dialog makes the issue reproducible reliably here for me (since the window is opened maximized in the first run).

(In reply to Robert Großkopf from comment #11)
> Tested this again: Bug appears only if LO has been maximized before closing.
> Doesn't recognize this, because I'm only working with LO maximized.

Good point. Indeed, when I do the following, I can reproduce reliably:

1) clear user profile
2) open a Base document
3) close LO
4) open Start Center
5) maximize window
6) close window
7) open Start Center again

The issue is no more reproducible for me with https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/139903 in place.
Comment 13 Commit Notification 2022-09-14 08:10:02 UTC
Michael Weghorn committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "libreoffice-7-4":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/1c0f44cbacb4bcefcf383586e7ccd32d47388fa4

tdf#150779 tdf#150856 Revert "VCL add vcl::WindowPosSize ...

It will be available in 7.4.2.

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.
Comment 14 Xisco Faulí 2022-09-14 12:18:55 UTC
Verified in

Version: 7.4.2.0.0+ / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 1c0f44cbacb4bcefcf383586e7ccd32d47388fa4
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.10; UI render: default; VCL: kf5 (cairo+xcb)
Locale: es-ES (es_ES.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

@Michael, thanks for the revert
Comment 15 Xisco Faulí 2022-09-16 09:06:49 UTC
*** Bug 150988 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 16 V Stuart Foote 2022-09-19 20:51:16 UTC
*** Bug 151067 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 17 Buovjaga 2022-09-20 11:09:13 UTC
*** Bug 151078 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 18 Michael Weghorn 2022-10-11 05:24:43 UTC
*** Bug 151450 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 19 V Stuart Foote 2022-10-12 15:02:10 UTC
*** Bug 151493 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 20 V Stuart Foote 2022-10-12 15:02:55 UTC
*** Bug 151414 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 21 Heiko Tietze 2022-11-22 12:32:08 UTC
Seems to also solve bug 125543 (after starting in safe mode the window becomes about 50% of the screen size now on un-maximizing - which is quite ugly on wide screens but not an issue anymore).