Summary: | Make start center optional | ||
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Product: | LibreOffice | Reporter: | Ted Lee <tmplee> |
Component: | UI | Assignee: | Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs> |
Status: | NEW --- | ||
Severity: | enhancement | ||
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 6.0.1.1 release | ||
Hardware: | x86-64 (AMD64) | ||
OS: | macOS (All) | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Crash report or crash signature: | Regression By: | ||
Bug Depends on: | |||
Bug Blocks: | 61914 | ||
Attachments: | picture of screen without start center |
Description
Ted Lee
2018-02-22 21:42:43 UTC
When the start center would be disabled, what would be in the empty rectangle under the menu? What empty rectangle? I'm on a Mac. It's been a long time since I've been on a Windows machine, so I'd forgotten you can't have a menu without a window! And it's been even longer since I used a unix machine, and I don't remember what windowing system I used on it, so I don't know how your question applies to that environment. Created attachment 140075 [details]
picture of screen without start center
Here's a picture of how the top left portion of the screen would look without the start center. (I've added a big red L to my icon for the LibreOffice app.) Just for illustrative purposes, I've shown it with the File menu opened. I think this answers the comment about "the rectangle". There ain't one! Note that the dock is on the left.
Confirming on Version: 6.0.1.1 Build ID: 60bfb1526849283ce2491346ed2aa51c465abfe6 Threads CPU : 4; OS : Mac OS X 10.13.3; UI Render : par défaut; Locale : fr-FR (fr_FR.UTF-8); Calc: group There is currently no option in the Advanced Configuration Settings under StartCenter to turn it off on OSX. The problem is that in order to function, LO requires that a window be drawn to provide a main menu (by default at the top of the screen) - on OSX, the effects of this are only visible when moving in/out of fullscreen mode, e.g. when closing a document window (cf. all of the already known bugs related to incoherent fullscreen support on OSX). (In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #1) > When the start center would be disabled, what would be in the empty > rectangle under the menu? @Mike : as opposed to what one sees on Linux when all document windows are closed, there is no visible (at least visible to the user) grey background window on OSX. Other than I find the start window somewhat annoying (childish?) I realized one reason it is especially annoying. I like to have LibreOffice (previously, NeoOffice) set to open on log-in since it does take a fair amount of time to start up. It is especially annoying to have the start window show up under those circumstances. In any case, most of the time I open a document for editing by clicking on it, not by picking it from the recents document list. Although I know it's bad form to refer to your "competition", but NeoOffice doesn't seem to have any problem omitting the start screen. Hmmmm. I have an idea that might accomplish 90% of what I want. There is a bit somewhere in an app's prop list that can be set to tell the system to open it hidden or invisible (I forget what term is used). If I can remember/find what that is I'll give it a try and report back. If the app were scriptable, which I don't believe it is, one could of course write a script to tell it to close that window once it's started up! |