Bug 163555 - [UI] When switching document-windows, LibreOffice ignores windows with documents types other than the active
Summary: [UI] When switching document-windows, LibreOffice ignores windows with docume...
Status: UNCONFIRMED
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Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
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25.2.0.0 alpha0+
Hardware: All Linux (All)
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Reported: 2024-10-21 12:58 UTC by Cor Nouws
Modified: 2024-12-01 21:18 UTC (History)
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Description Cor Nouws 2024-10-21 12:58:36 UTC
This is on GNOME, Ubuntu 24.04

- Open two writer documents and one spreadsheet
- make spreadsheet the active one
- switch document-window to a writer document
   (alt-`) or menu 'Window > <pick a document>' 
  > the Writer document windows are ignored.

- make text document the active one
- switch document-window to a another document
   (alt-`) or menu 'Window > <pick a document>' 
  > the Writer document window is offered, the spreadsheet is ignored.

- Now also open another (recent? 7.6+) version of LibreOffice.
- open a spreadsheet document
- go back to the spreadsheet document in the other LibreOffice
- switch document-window to another document
   (alt-`)
  > the spreadsheet in the other LibreOffice version is activated.

This is problematic: with a huge amount of windows of a less huge amount of applications open, being able to switch between the open office documents is important.
Also menu 'Window > <pick a document>' does not work correct any more.


I guess this is related to the change in the menu Recent Documents (not ideal IMO, but one I can live with). Is it intended?


Version: 25.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 5cf912b08e4a22f66ab1ec5fa601ba3e50e3c4cc
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.8; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 Eyal Rozenberg 2024-10-21 23:10:11 UTC
> with a huge amount of windows of a less huge amount
> of applications open, being able to switch between 
> the open office documents is important.

Is it? I mean, why are LO documents of another type more important than your, say, Xournal PDF editing sessions, gimp images, text files, source code files in the IDE, LaTeX documents, etc. which are open?
Comment 2 Cor Nouws 2024-10-22 10:06:15 UTC
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #1)
> Is it? I mean, why are LO documents of another type more important than
> your, say, Xournal PDF editing sessions, gimp images, text files, source
> code files in the IDE, LaTeX documents, etc. which are open?
Alt-Tab allows me to switch between various application-windows.
Alt-` always allowed to switch between various windows within one application. With LibreOffice that no longer works.

Does that make it clearer, Eyal?