Bug 165859 - Writer: Hyperlink tips obscure document
Summary: Writer: Hyperlink tips obscure document
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
25.8.0.0 alpha0+
Hardware: All Linux (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Reported: 2025-03-22 10:47 UTC by Paul
Modified: 2025-03-22 16:25 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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SAMPLE FILE (55.01 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2025-03-22 15:14 UTC, Paul
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Description Paul 2025-03-22 10:47:05 UTC
Description:
There is no way to turn off tooltips for hyperlinks without turning them off for toolbars also. When hovering over a clickable user index, the hyperlink tooltips obscure the content.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create a user index. Make its entries clickable.
2.hover over any entry in the index
3.watch the tooltip prevent you from reading that entry and others.

Actual Results:
Not only is the tooltip in the way, it's poorly designed to include unreadable symbols that make it much larger than it needs to be.

Expected Results:
A much better system would be to place the link's target in the status bar, out of the way, as browsers do.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
Currently, at Options / Advanced / Expert, disabling Display / Help / Tip nukes all tooltips, including the desirable ones on the toolbars, so that is not a solution. More granularity is needed.
Comment 1 Paul 2025-03-22 10:48:28 UTC
Here's an example of this problem.

https://i.postimg.cc/dtB0B5b7/2025-03-21-36-3.png
Comment 2 m_a_riosv 2025-03-22 15:06:15 UTC
Please attach a sample file, reduce the size as much as possible without private information, and paste the information in Menu/Help/About LibreOffice, there is a copy icon.
Comment 3 Paul 2025-03-22 15:14:17 UTC
Created attachment 199953 [details]
SAMPLE FILE

Problem is for all hyperlinks, Index and ToC.
Comment 4 m_a_riosv 2025-03-22 16:23:19 UTC
It seems that the distance from the tip text to the link is not always well calculated. Seems a refresh regression.

Version: 25.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 81dfc7afcdc473bd655ff64038e8a449a9999c0c
CPU threads: 16; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 26100); UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: es-ES (es_ES); UI: en-GB
Calc: CL threaded
Comment 5 Paul 2025-03-22 16:25:08 UTC
Perhaps, but the size and the location anywhere over the document are to me more fundamental problems.