When adding a footer to a new Libreoffice Writer document, the focus jumps back to the top of the page. Steps to reproduce: 1. Open Libreoffice Writer. 2. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the footer area to create a footer. Current outcome: The focus/view will jump straight back to the cursor at the top of the page requiring you to scroll back down to the bottom of the page again. This is only really evident when you create the footer before editing the rest of the document. When you scroll back down to the bottom of the page the footer pop up is visible and you can then create the footer. It is not a massive problem but minor annoyance in certain circumstances as you need to scroll more. Expected outcome: The focus/view should remain on the bottom of the page when clicking on the footer area so you can create the footer and input text etc. Can be noticed in Libreoffice 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4 across Windows and Linux operation systems. I have not tested on MacOSX but I would guess it is present there as well.
Hi Gabriel, This was a bug that had been disturbing me for a while but i never ended up reporting it. :D Confirmed on master. It is a regression as it works correctly in 3.6.7. Version: 4.4.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: 227ca23324fabd77abae1b7eb6186ba11d519fae TinderBox: Linux-rpm_deb-x86@45-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2014-10-09_14:20:58
Unless I have used the wrong technique, I have not been able to make this work going all the way back through the bibisect files. I scroll to the bottom and then click into the area below the entry canvas. This is where the footer appears when you do an insert > footer. In all versions tested, it then bounces back to the top of the document. So either I am testing it incorrectly, or this pre-dates the bibisect files. Will monitor this issue if anyone has more notes or thoughts on versions that worked. If I can see it and it's newer than 3.5, I can bibisect it.
I also can't find any version in the bibisect repos that behaves as described. Assuming for the sake of argument that this is a regression, it doesn't appear to be readily bibisectable, but I suspect that this is more properly an enhancement request Setting Whiteboard:notBibisectable
Created attachment 111109 [details] screencast Here is a screencast of 3.6.7 showing it works and 4.0.6 showing it doesnt work. Tested it also on windows 7 and its the same thing.
I just tested 4.0.0 beta 1 and its broken there. Version 4.0.0.0.beta1 (Build ID: 87906242e87d3ddb2ba9827818f2d1416d80cc7)
Here is some additional information on the behaviour: 1. New Text Document. 2. View -> Zoom -> Entire Page. 3. Click on footer area. Expected Result: Footer pop up is correctly shown. Result: Footer pop up is correctly shown. 1. New Text Document. 2. View -> Zoom -> Page Width. (Or zoom so that entire page is not on screen). 3. Scroll to bottom of page. 4. Click on footer area. Expected Result: Footer pop up is correctly shown. Result: Page scrolls to top of page and cursor appears at the end of the text on the page. Alternate: 3. Type one word. 4. Place cursor in text at either a, b, or c: a. beginning of text and scroll to bottom of page. b. middle of text and scroll to bottom of page. c. end of text and scroll to bottom of page. 5. Click on footer area. Expected Result: Footer pop up is correctly shown. Result: Page scrolls to top of page and cursor appears at the end of the text on the page. 1. New Text Document. 2. View -> Zoom -> Page Width. (Or zoom so that entire page is not on screen). 3. Enter enough text so that bottom of page and text are visible. 4. Place cursor in text at either a, b, or c: a. beginning of text and scroll to bottom of page. b. middle of text and scroll to bottom of page. c. end of text. 5. Click on footer area. Expected Result: Footer pop up is correctly shown. Result: Footer pop up is correctly shown and cursor appears at the end of the text on the page. The scrolling behaviour happens because the cursor is being positioned at the end of the text on the page after clicking on the footer area and also because the cursor position is off screen from the footer when the focus is changed. Version: 4.4.1.2 Build ID: 45e2de17089c24a1fa810c8f975a7171ba4cd432
Migrating Whiteboard tags to Keywords: (notBibisectable)
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Tested with LibreOffice 5.2.3 on Korora 25 and this behaviour is still present. Gabriel
Confirming with: Version: 5.4.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: a917902c48f21d04039da86048c5c36555137d7e CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 6.2; UI render: default; TinderBox: Win-x86@62-TDF, Branch:MASTER, Time: 2017-04-24_23:35:22
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I just noticed this as well - surprised I didn't see it earlier because it is really annoying. Still exists in LO 6.4 alpha.
proposed fix at https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/8270
Justin Luth committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/342a5890dbcddccb4013e201e3ff3d9e6967e733 tdf#84929 sw UI: stay at footer when showing control It will be available in 6.5.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Justin Luth committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-6-4": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/fee310ddda7ea7452107b9528776cbcc7c7db9f0 tdf#84929 sw UI: stay at footer when showing control It will be available in 6.4.0.1. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.