Bug 168574 - UI: Sidebar Paragraph or Character Styles context menu on a different style jumps to actual style
Summary: UI: Sidebar Paragraph or Character Styles context menu on a different style j...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
25.8.1.1 release
Hardware: All All
: medium minor
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Blocks: Sidebar-Styles
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Reported: 2025-09-27 14:27 UTC by Michael Otto
Modified: 2026-01-22 06:59 UTC (History)
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Description Michael Otto 2025-09-27 14:27:56 UTC
PRECONDITION:
open any document, 
set cursor to a paragraph with Default Paragraph Style 
at a character with No Character Style, 
open Sidebar Deck for Paragraph or Character Styles, 
the selection in the sidebar jumps to the corresponding 
style where the cursor is placed (OK)

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:
open context menu on a different Paragraph Style 
or on a different Character Style, 
the selection in the sidebar does not stay at the style 
where the context menu was opened but within less than 
a second jumps back to the corresponding style where 
the cursor is placed (NOK)
according to this, when selecting Edit Style, the wrong 
style is opened (not the different but the actual style)


EXPECTED BEHAVIOR:
jump to the actual style in the sidebar shall be 
suppressed as long as context menu is open 
(or sidebar may jump back, but context menu shall 
open for the style where it was opened)


Version: 25.8.1.1 (X86_64)
Build ID: 54047653041915e595ad4e45cccea684809c77b5
CPU threads: 2; OS: Linux 6.8; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: de-DE (de_DE.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 Peter Gervai 2025-11-10 12:18:08 UTC
Still present in
Version: 25.8.2.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 580(Build:2)
CPU threads: 24; OS: Linux 6.12; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Debian package version: 4:25.8.2-3
Calc: threaded

Additional info: this behaviour basically makes it close to impossible to Edit Style any style which is not active, the user needs to select the Edit Style menu within about 500 milliseconds.

Workaround is to break out the style panel, which supposedly take away the focus from the main window which keeps switching the selected style below the menu.