Summary: | UI: Header, footer & and page break indicators in multipage view | ||
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Product: | LibreOffice | Reporter: | Janne Uusitalo <janne.uusitalo> |
Component: | Writer | Assignee: | Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | barta, bugs, courrier.oou.fr.mjk, janne.uusitalo |
Priority: | high | ||
Version: | 3.5.0 release | ||
Hardware: | x86-64 (AMD64) | ||
OS: | Linux (All) | ||
URL: | http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/e/ef/0201WG3-IntroducingWriter.odt | ||
Whiteboard: | BSA target:3.6.1 | ||
Crash report or crash signature: | Regression By: |
Description
Janne Uusitalo
2012-02-23 05:42:41 UTC
Trying to attach a seven-megabyte video wasn't the best of ideas, it seems. Here's a URL, instead, to the video I screenshot to illustrate the problem: http://youtu.be/qiKr-rLhaag Thanks in advance for everyone interested to have a look at what's going on. (In reply to comment #0) > Problem description: the behavior of the blue indicators for page breaks > (button + dashed line) and header & footer areas leads to a UX nightmare when > having multiple pages visible in the view layout. I have attached a video Please attach the document you were editing. (In reply to comment #2) > Please attach the document you were editing. Unfortunately the document I'm editing in the video doesn't exist anymore. (I finished the project with Scribus.) J. Seems related to bug 44725 - "VIEWING: Heading - Footer - Pagebreak lines appear somewhere in the page". Also related to bug 46141 - "UI: Header/footer prompts should only appear if user clicks in header/footer area". I'd like to second this, I'm working on a large document and have been since long before this release but the header/footer tab almost makes editing the document unworkable. I'd very much want a configuration option to turn this feature off, as I typically only edit headers and footers once. IMHO this does not warrant a popup like tab as is implemented now. Apart for UI preferences, rendering of the tab is also very buggy and intermittent in multi page view. I also have the strong impression that it hampers the scrolling of the text, it has been very choppy since introduction of the header/footer tab. Please advice me of any information you might need to fix or adjust this feature, I will happily provide it. Ivan Timofeev committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-3-6": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=cbb047527d856258b7b925dc37f56f0e9b0b3e90&g=libreoffice-3-6 Page Break: don't show if mouse is gone and button is still invisible (fdo#46518) It will be available in LibreOffice 3.6.1. (In reply to comment #7) > Ivan Timofeev committed a patch related to this issue. > It has been pushed to "libreoffice-3-6": For the record (and for curious people like me): This fix is also in the master branch, see http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=61df142e9398dee581935a4967f50ba0bd1d5235 "Page Break: don't show if mouse is gone and button is still invisible" Cf. also http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=a7b26dbf7b4c59b34fed9957c32a41348bfd6f77 "Page Break: set position only when button is invisible and don't let the moribund fading-out button pursue the mouse" I cannot test Linux. do you still experience the bug in 4.0.x and 4.1.x releases? a fix has been included in 3.6.1 I cannot reproduce any of the reported symptoms in 4.0.2.2, Ubuntu 13.04. The header and footer area indicators now flicker for a moment before appearing or disappearing, but since they do so on mouse-click and not on hover, the annoyance is minor and should be (if hasn't already been) filed separately. |