When you click a comment box in a Writer document, the comment is not selected in the Navigator even when Comment Tracking is on. Steps to reproduce: 1) Consider a document in Writer with multiple comments 2) Open the navigator and check if "Comment tracking" is enabled (right-click the Comments entry in the navigator and check Comment tracking) 3) Click inside a comment in the document; notice that it doesn't get selected in the navigator 4) Using the "Previous/Next" buttons in the navigator will move the cursor to the expected comment; however the selected comment in the Navigator will not change In summary, I believe comment tracking should select the comment in the navigator when the cursor is inside a comment box in the document. Reproducible with current master Version: 7.5.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 24d7431876e87eba700a9f141dc8e030143a92ad CPU threads: 16; OS: Linux 5.19; UI render: default; VCL: kf5 (cairo+xcb) Locale: pt-BR (pt_BR.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: CL threaded
The Navigator tracks content at the cursor position in the document view. Here is where this is done for fields and comments: sw/source/uibase/utlui/content.cxx SwContentTree::UpdateTracking function // fields, comments
Repro. It does track, if you position cursor to the comment marker in the canvas. Arch Linux 64-bit, X11 Version: 7.6.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 65f672b27f84682764f924a3da3cecbafc88b278 CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.2; UI render: default; VCL: kf5 (cairo+xcb) Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded Built on 8 March 2023
It does not track for me in 7.6.2.1. Comment tracking is enabled, when I place the cursor in comments in the document the navigator pane does nothing.
Jim Raykowski committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/6573d0ed5479fd543303e82ec23195bdc101ceb4 Resolves tdf#152297 Track comments in the Navigator also by focus It will be available in 25.2.0. 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.