Bug 165707 - Tabbed notebookbar and groupedbar compact UI layouts hide themselves (and show the menubar instead) during file opening
Summary: Tabbed notebookbar and groupedbar compact UI layouts hide themselves (and sho...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
5.4.0.3 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
: low minor
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: implementationError
Depends on:
Blocks: Notebookbar Notebookbar-Groupedbar
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Reported: 2025-03-12 16:07 UTC by Jeff Fortin Tam
Modified: 2026-01-25 20:09 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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2025-03-12 16:07 UTC, Jeff Fortin Tam 		Details
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Description Jeff Fortin Tam 2025-03-12 16:07:54 UTC 
Created attachment 199772 [details]
Demonstration video

See the short demonstration video attached.

1. Open a blank LibreOffice Calc or LibreOffice Writer window

2. Make sure your UI mode is set to "Tabbed" or "Groupedbar Compact"
   (this might affect other layouts too, I haven't tested them all)

3. Open a document

Result: your toolbars briefly get hidden and replaced by a menubar during loading.


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Tested with:

Version: 25.2.1.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: d3abf4aee5fd705e4a92bba33a32f40bc4e56f49
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.12; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Flatpak
Comment 1 mikhail.machine 2025-03-13 10:51:18 UTC 
Hello Jeff Fortin Tam,

I can\е 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
Calc: threaded

and

Version: 25.2.0.3 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: e1cf4a87eb02d755bce1a01209907ea5ddc8f069
CPU threads: 12; OS: Windows 10 X86_64 (10.0 build 19045); UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_FI); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 2 Jeff Fortin Tam 2025-03-17 14:59:02 UTC 
I'm not sure why the platform field for this was changed to "Linux (All)", when Mikhail also confirmed that it happens on the Windows version… similarly, I would bet that bug #164942 also happens on platforms other than Linux, too.
Comment 3 mikhail.machine 2025-03-18 09:01:57 UTC 
Hello Jeff Fortin Tam,

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
Calc: threaded

and

Version: 25.2.0.3 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: e1cf4a87eb02d755bce1a01209907ea5ddc8f069
CPU threads: 12; OS: Windows 10 X86_64 (10.0 build 19045); UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_FI); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 4 Jeff Fortin Tam 2025-08-24 03:37:36 UTC 
It still happens to me with:

Version: 25.8.0.4 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 48f00303701489684e67c38c28aff00cd5929e67
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Flatpak
Comment 5 Buovjaga 2026-01-17 13:33:54 UTC 
Repro. A good trick to make sure you see it is to have macro security as medium and then open a file with a macro, so the opening gets blocked by the security warning.

Already in 5.4.

Arch Linux 64-bit
Version: 26.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64)
Build ID: d30a759567c437b501101099fc3786ea87691e15
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.18; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded
Built on 17 January 2026