Since the find/replace functionality was changed to remove modal dialog boxes for informational responses and replace them with a message area in the find bar, it doesn't keep consistent state between that message area and the input box. If a user changes the input box in any way (clears it or enters a different term), the message box should reset itself to match state. It doesn't. Steps to reproduce: 1. Enter a search term you know isn't in the document. 2. Note the find bar says "Search key not found" in the new message area. 3. Clear the search box and enter a new term. 4. Imagine you were distracted for a moment and forgot what you were doing. 5. Look back and see you've entered a new term where it says "Search key not found". That's not true, because you haven't searched for it yet. Also, it consistently says "Reached the end of the document" when it wraps, regardless of direction, even when a user is searching backwards and it has reached the start of the document and wrapped to the end. It should really say "Reached the start of the document" then... (By the way, from my perspective this was an intrusive UI change which left me wondering if search was broken, because previously I'd positioned the find bar to the right of another bar, as it had sufficient space to fit all its buttons. When I upgraded to 4.3 I couldn't see the text area that'd been added for messages. After I dragged the bar around I noticed messages were being displayed in it. This change wasn't mentioned in the release notes for 4.3. It should've been.)
Confirmed. Win 7 Pro 64-bit Version: 4.5.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: 784d069cc1d9f1d6e6a4e543a278376ab483d1eb TinderBox: Win-x86@62-TDF, Branch:MASTER, Time: 2015-01-25_23:07:36
Joren De Cuyper committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=4a0cf72f40e9545d367f48617c2834146d7bec1a tdf#88608: clear SearchLabel when altering the search string It will be available in 5.0.0. 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.
Joren De Cuyper committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=69b35cb45375c324c1e28fd4547ce874e4894f30 related tdf#88608: find: add string for reaching start of document It will be available in 5.0.0. 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.
Xisco Fauli committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/33381457503db841cdda3abb95ff3f96fb6e3e6c tdf#88608: sw: Add UItest It will be available in 7.1.0. 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.