Steps to reproduce: 1. Open a read-only document 2. View - User interface -> it's greyed out. However, it should be possible to change the UI, it has nothing to do with the document Reproduced in Version: 7.6.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 2da16ff9f018fae68c53a801e5a234dafc2ebcec CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.10; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-US (es_ES.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded
Fix in https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/147655
Xisco Fauli committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/c2de9708f1041d230b4688151116ff9c3c9e5184 tdf#153802: make it possible to change the UI with read-only docs It will be available in 7.6.0. 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.
Xisco Fauli committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-7-5": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/aca7aba0dfd232650ec70ed22a2d18ef74b8851a tdf#153802: make it possible to change the UI with read-only docs It will be available in 7.5.2. 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.