Bug 165174 - Disabling text boundaries in Writer makes them disappear in Draw as well
Summary: Disabling text boundaries in Writer makes them disappear in Draw as well
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Draw (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
24.8.4.2 release
Hardware: All All
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Blocks: Writer-UX
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Reported: 2025-02-10 19:42 UTC by robomurphy98
Modified: 2025-02-13 07:40 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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No boundaries in Writer (3.94 KB, image/png)
2025-02-10 19:44 UTC, robomurphy98
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Now I open Draw and the text limits do not appear (4.01 KB, image/png)
2025-02-10 19:45 UTC, robomurphy98
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No boundaries in Draw in 25.2.0.3 after check boundaries in Writer (65.85 KB, image/png)
2025-02-12 21:14 UTC, robomurphy98
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No boundaries in Draw in Light Application Color theme (57.66 KB, image/png)
2025-02-12 21:16 UTC, robomurphy98
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Description robomurphy98 2025-02-10 19:42:59 UTC
Description:
Good evening, this is something that has been happening to me for a long time and that is that when I deactivate the text boundaries of the page in Writer (Click in menu item View -> uncheck "Text Boundaries") if I open Draw the limits (lines) disappear there too. Also, from Draw itself there is no option to show them again and to do this I have to go to Writer to put them back (check View -> Text Boundaries).

As an additional note I have tried the same thing in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.15 and this does not happen.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to menu item View.
2. Uncheck Text Boundaries.
3. They disappear from the Writer page (so far everything OK).
4. Open Draw and there is not boundaries in the page.

Actual Results:
Uncheck text boundaries in Writer also disappear from Draw.

Expected Results:
Unchecking text boundaries in Writer should not also remove them from Draw.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes

Additional Info:
Version: 24.8.4.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: bb3cfa12c7b1bf994ecc5649a80400d06cd71002
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10 X86_64 (10.0 build 19045); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: es-ES (es_ES); UI: es-ES
Calc: CL threaded
Comment 1 robomurphy98 2025-02-10 19:44:48 UTC
Created attachment 199116 [details]
No boundaries in Writer
Comment 2 robomurphy98 2025-02-10 19:45:45 UTC
Created attachment 199117 [details]
Now I open Draw and the text limits do not appear
Comment 3 robomurphy98 2025-02-10 19:47:15 UTC
I think it would be nice if the configuration of the Writer page did not depend on that of Draw, as a feature it would be nice if in Draw there was an option to show/hide the text boundaries.
Comment 4 Rafael Lima 2025-02-11 18:49:19 UTC
This is probably related to bug 163856 and bug 164185.

I can confirm the behavior in

Version: 24.8.4.2 (X86_64)
Build ID: 480(Build:2)
CPU threads: 12; OS: Linux 6.12; UI render: default; VCL: kf6 (cairo+wayland)
Locale: pt-BR (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

The issue appears to have been fixed in 25.2 and 25.8. In 25.2 there was a change in how boundaries are managed.

If you uncheck View - Boundaries in Writer, the boundaries will be visible in Draw.

Please, try with the new 25.2 release.

Works in

Version: 25.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 862e86d187c53ab077b672997ca8d9623396b962
CPU threads: 12; OS: Linux 6.12; UI render: default; VCL: kf6 (cairo+wayland)
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded
Comment 5 robomurphy98 2025-02-12 21:12:52 UTC
I was testing version 25.2 and here there are no boundaries on the Draw page, regardless of whether or not I check the boundaries in Writer. I did the test starting from resetting the user folder so that nothing influences it.

Step 1: When I start the application it shows me the default theme "Automatic", there are no boundaries in Draw. I proceed to activate them in Writer, activate them on the page but when I return to Draw they are not there.

Step 2: I proceed to install Light Application Color to make the page blank, I check again the boundaries in Writer and see if they are in Draw, there are not.
Comment 6 robomurphy98 2025-02-12 21:14:30 UTC
Created attachment 199176 [details]
No boundaries in Draw in 25.2.0.3 after check boundaries in Writer

No boundaries in Draw after a reset profile, with the default Automatic theme.
Comment 7 robomurphy98 2025-02-12 21:16:50 UTC
Created attachment 199177 [details]
No boundaries in Draw in Light Application Color theme
Comment 8 mikhail.machine 2025-02-13 07:40:42 UTC
Hello [user's name],

I can't confirm that the bug is present in master.

Version: 25.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: a8ec21adf255b70bb6eeb0a1717190df303d8b26
CPU threads: 12; OS: Windows 10 X86_64 (build 19045); UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_FI); UI: en-US
Writer: threaded