Bug 166456 - NB Tabbed UI does not provide onmouseover action appearance when hovering, implement native MS Ribbon Framework UI behavior
Summary: NB Tabbed UI does not provide onmouseover action appearance when hovering, im...
Status: NEEDINFO
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
25.2.3.2 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Windows (All)
: medium enhancement
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Keywords: needsUXEval
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Blocks: Notebookbar-Tabbed
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Reported: 2025-05-04 16:20 UTC by Erfan
Modified: 2025-05-05 07:27 UTC (History)
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Description Erfan 2025-05-04 16:20:15 UTC
Description:
Not a huge problem, but when hovering over the ribbon (file, edit, view, etc), they won't appear, you have to click one of them once manually, and then the hovering works 

Steps to Reproduce:
1. download LibreOffice Writer on windows 11 24h2
2. Install the LibreOffice Writer
3. The hovering doesn't work 

Actual Results:
The hovering of the ribbon didn't work as intended 

Expected Results:
It should open each menu when hovering and not require a manual click on it once


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes

Additional Info:
Version: 25.2.3.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: bbb074479178df812d175f709636b368952c2ce3
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (10.0 build 26100); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded
Comment 1 V Stuart Foote 2025-05-04 20:44:05 UTC
And? LibreOffice does not implement native MS Windows Ribbon Framework UI.

Rather, the Notebook Bar 'Tabbed' UI is a Glade assemblage of UNO controls, superficially arranged to appear like the MS Ribbon UI. Its interface are limited in some facets, e.g. onmouseover can expose tooltip but will not launch or shift focus, requiring a user click action.

Use of native Ribbon Framework could not be cross-platform. And otherwise no reason for project to implement.

-1 and => WF
Comment 2 Eyal Rozenberg 2025-05-04 20:55:55 UTC
(In reply to Erfan from comment #0)
> when hovering over the ribbon (file, edit, view,
> etc), they won't appear,
> 
> ...
> 
> 3. The hovering doesn't work 

Do you mean you would like the active tab to change while you're hovering over the tab labels?

I don't quite understand.
Comment 3 Heiko Tietze 2025-05-05 07:27:22 UTC
Me is confused as well. What exactly do you expect to be opened on hover? And if you really have the tabs in mind I wonder where this expectation comes from. MSO does not change the UI on hover - for good reason IMO. Imagine you accidentally move the cursor around and hit another tab... which is quite likely.