Bug 168601 - View menu contents grayed out during Save-As + don't un-gray-out when it's done
Summary: View menu contents grayed out during Save-As + don't un-gray-out when it's done
Status: UNCONFIRMED
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Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Impress (show other bugs)
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Hardware: All All
: medium minor
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Blocks: Main-Menu Save
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Reported: 2025-09-29 08:25 UTC by Eyal Rozenberg
Modified: 2025-09-29 09:41 UTC (History)
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Description Eyal Rozenberg 2025-09-29 08:25:11 UTC
If I save a larger Impress presentation, and while it's being saved, I want to switch from Normal to Slide Master view - I can't do it: (Essentially) all items on the View menu are grayed out during the save. This is already a bug: There is no reason I should not be able to take non-modifying actions during a save. In fact, one could argue that modifying actions should also not be a problem (with the save being of the pre-modified document).

But as if that's not bad enough - the gray-out continues even after the Save action is done, i.e. unless I leave the View menu and re-enter it, the items don't un-gray-out.

Seen with:

Version: 26.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 0d986755e4153230670c820dc52cc40cd72dfa87
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.12; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-IL (en_IL); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded

but also with some 24.8 release or 25.2 nightly last year.
Comment 1 Heiko Tietze 2025-09-29 08:59:22 UTC
Cannot confirm, after SaveAs the View menu items are correctly enabled. Tested without a huge presentation though.

Version: 25.8.1.1 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 580(Build:1)
CPU threads: 32; OS: Linux 6.16; UI render: default; VCL: kf6 (cairo+xcb)
Locale: de-DE (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
25.8.1-3
Calc: threaded
Comment 2 Eyal Rozenberg 2025-09-29 09:02:33 UTC
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #1)
> Cannot confirm, after SaveAs the View menu items are correctly enabled.
> Tested without a huge presentation though.

This does require the save action to be heavy enough for you to see the grayed-out items in the first place. Do you?

Also, what do you think about the implicit questions here?

1. Is it legitimate for (View) menu items to be grayed-out during a Save action?
2. Supposing items do get grayed out, is it incumbent upon the app to un-gray them without the user having left the menu?
Comment 3 Heiko Tietze 2025-09-29 09:11:45 UTC
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #2)
> 1. Is it legitimate for (View) menu items to be grayed-out during a Save
> action?
> 2. Supposing items do get grayed out, is it incumbent upon the app to
> un-gray them without the user having left the menu?

Commands that are currently not available should be disabled. I cannot say why this happens during Save operations - it has been requested to run in the background, see bug Bug 48416 (duplicate?). And of course we have to enable the commands again if the context changes.
Comment 4 Eyal Rozenberg 2025-09-29 09:41:56 UTC
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #3)
> And of course we have to
> enable the commands again if the context changes.

Well, this should be sufficient to confirm, if we limit the title to only the second part.