The zoom slider currently seems to listen to the onmouseup event. So, when using the scrollbar and releasing the mouse button while having the mouse pointer on the zoom slider, the zoom gets changed. The zoom slider should only listen to full click event (onmousedown + onmouseup).
Thanks for bugreport reproduced in 3.3.4 and 3.5.4 on Fedora 64 bit (Windows not tested) Steps to reproduce: 0. Click on page scroll slider thumb and hold mouse 1. Move mouse on line between zoom slider thumb and and icon + or - 2. Release mouse button IMHO: this behaviour is part of LO internals inherited from Borland VCL. And not easy to fix at this time.
*** Bug 56271 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Thanks sasha.libreoffice@gmail.com for your answer. what a shame that this bug must be not easy to fix, but is there any way to deactivate zoom slider or prevent zoom widget to show up? (like in pre 3.x versions of openoffice.org), maybe it would be a temporal solution to my specific problem, it is very annoying to use horizontal displacement bar and zoom slider go crazy
Still around on 4.2 RC1. It'd be nice to deal with this one soon.
*** Bug 54422 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
A workaround: use middle mouse button to drag the horizontal scroll bar. (unfortunately, most laptops do not have a middle pointer button.)
(In reply to sasha.libreoffice from comment #1) > IMHO: this behaviour is part of LO internals inherited from Borland VCL. please note that StarOffice VCL is completely unrelated to Borland VCL.
Rodolfo Ribeiro Gomes committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=53740bd71a0ae569da36b9293ef22842a0b53f1e tdf#47577 Zoom slider should only react to full click It will be available in 4.5.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Rodolfo fixed it, yay
Rodolfo Ribeiro Gomes committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-4-4": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=0bc37cf20044fe8fee0cc7dd5af3ee58304a3a0f&h=libreoffice-4-4 tdf#47577 Zoom slider should only react to full click It will be available in 4.4.1. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.