Bug 114693

Summary: Inconsistency in restart suggestions for different options which change requires restart for effect
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski>
Component: LibreOfficeAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: telesto
Priority: medium Keywords: needsUXEval, topicUI
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Mike Kaganski 2017-12-26 03:03:17 UTC 
Throughout LibreOffice, changing several options requires restart to take effect. This includes OpenGL/OpenCL use, UI language, and extension installation, among other.

When some of them changes, warnings about restart required are emitted to user; however, the warnings are different for different settings:

* For OpenCL, a dialog with "Please restart LibreOfficeDev now so the new or modified values can take effect." and single OK button is shown, which simply informs about the necessary action, and relies on user doing it at a later time.
* For UI language, OpenGL, and installation of extensions, a "Restart LibreOffice" dialog with "For the <feature name here> to take effect, LibreOffice must be restarted. Do you want to restart LibreOffice now?" and two buttons, "Restart Now" and "Restart Later", is shown, which allows to initiate the restart immediately, or do it manually at a later stage.

The proposal is to unify the OpenCL restart warning (and others using similar warnings) with the one used for UI language etc.
Comment 1 Telesto 2017-12-26 09:58:22 UTC 
I agree; a less detailed bug report found here: bug 104277
Comment 2 Mike Kaganski 2017-12-26 10:16:31 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 104277 ***