1. New Text Document. 2. File -> Properties. Result: Two rows of tabs. 3. Save file to a location with short path such as desktop. 4. File -> Properties. Result: Two rows of tabs. 5. Save file to a location with long path. 6. File -> Properties. Result: Width of dialog has increased and now there is one row of tabs. Version: 4.4.1.2 Build ID: 45e2de17089c24a1fa810c8f975a7171ba4cd432
Reproducible with LO 4.4.1.2, Win 8.1. This is due to that the path is shown in the "General" tab and if it is longer then the dialog has to be wider to show it and if it is wider then the tabs have no longer to be splitted on two lines. Therefore, I am not sure respectively I don't think this is a bug.
Maybe it should stay the same size with the two rows of tabs, but have the location scrollable like in the Windows file property dialog, or just have it with the one row of tabs, also with the scrollable location.
Gordo: thank you for your bug report. I like that idea of making the label scrollable to avoid widening the dialog. I think this can be done by using a read-only GtkEntry. @Caolán: what do you think? :-)
See also bug 83089
Caolán McNamara committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=c8e39299ac4ced2dc72f373526089b9574a14a8a Resolves: tdf#89885 use a readonly GtkEntry for location 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.
Caolán McNamara committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-4-4": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=233d3efda5523921b80ad8ebaf2b2e7175169e0e&h=libreoffice-4-4 Resolves: tdf#89885 use a readonly GtkEntry for location It will be available in 4.4.3. 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.