Open attachment 126378 [details]. Since it's 1 page ODT, add some text and page break to make it 3 pages. Try to change View-Show Whitespace. Experienced: doesn't change Expected: to work Repro with 7.5+. With older LO like 6.0, command was disabled on fileopen, which is also NOK in this bug, although better than now.
I confirm it with Version: 7.4.1.2 (x64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 3c58a8f3a960df8bc8fd77b461821e42c061c5f0 CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19044; UI render: default; VCL: win Locale: de-DE (de_DE); UI: de-DE Calc: threaded Tested also in Safe Mode. But as far as I can see, you don't have to add any text or pages. Changing "Show Whitespace" doesn't work with the document as it is.
The help says: Hiding whitespace is only possible in Single-page view. https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/lo/text/swriter/01/show_whitespace.html The document is in Multiple-page view, and the setting works for me after switching to Single-page view. Timur, does that make it work for you?
Aaron, you're right of course => RESOLVED NOTABUG
On a sidenote, the menu item became active with the following commit in 7.0, the fix to bug 124686. One could argue the menu should be disabled when the function does nothing, and that might still be considered a bug. Heiko, can you please share your opinion? https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=96def0ee391a99ddf042df820db1292b83d0c4fe author shameempk <mailtoshameempk@gmail.com> 2020-03-11 12:01:28 +0000 committer Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@collabora.com> 2020-03-30 09:36:37 +0200 tdf#124686 HideWhiteSpace should be positive Show Whitespace
(In reply to Aron Budea from comment #4) > One could argue the menu should be disabled when the function does nothing, > and that might still be considered a bug. > Heiko, can you please share your opinion? I won't call it a regression, because it's the intended behaviour. And if change behaviour again, it won't sslve the problem reported here. But enhancement request in bug 98446 provides a possible solution for this problem.
(In reply to Aron Budea from comment #4) > Heiko, can you please share your opinion? Do you talk about the main menu "View > [x] Show Whitespace", which works for me, or something else?
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #6) > Do you talk about the main menu "View > [x] Show Whitespace", which works > for me, or something else? Yes, that. What I see: 1. after opening the file, View -> Show Whitespace is unticked, 2. added two page breaks to get a 3-page document, 3. after ticking View -> Show Whitespace, there's no difference, 4. switched to Single-page View, 5. after unticking View -> Show Whitespace, the 3-page document is shown on one page. The bug is that step 3 does nothing, either the menu should be disabled when it has no effect, or it should have an effect. (In reply to Dieter from comment #5) > I won't call it a regression, because it's the intended behaviour. And if > change behaviour again, it won't sslve the problem reported here. But > enhancement request in bug 98446 provides a possible solution for this > problem. Fair enough, that seems like a reasonable solution.
I see, and of course you can hide white-space only in standard view mode. Either the suggestion at bug 98446 or we disable the command (which in turn would be not so easy to understand).