https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57698
Priority: medium
Bug ID: 57698
Assignee: [email protected]
Summary: dialog box moves when two documents open
Severity: normal
Classification: Unclassified
OS: Linux (All)
Reporter: [email protected]
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Version: 3.6.3.2 release
Component: Writer
Product: LibreOffice
I have two documents open at the same time, one on each screen. I leave space
on each screen for LO dialog boxes such as "Styles and Formatting" or the
"Navigator". None of these windows overlap.
When in one document, I open the "Fields" dialog, it usually pops up in a bad
place, like on top of the other document. This, by itself, would not be bad,
except that when I move my mouse to the Fields dialog, it has to cross over the
other document. As soon as the cursor goes over the other document, the Fields
dialog disappears because the 2nd document doesn't have an open Fields dialog!
An unsatisfactory workaround is to move the 2nd document out of the way
(usually mostly off-screen) so that the cursor can be dragged to the Fields
dialog when it reappears after the cursor is moved back to the 1st document.
After moving the cursor to the 1st document, the Fields dialog reappears. The
Fields dialog can be dragged to a better place, i.e., closer to document 1.
However, the reason I have two documents open at the same time is to refer to
both of them at the same time. After repositioning the Fields dialog, I would
like to move the 2nd document back to a useful position on the other screen.
When I do so, the Fields dialog disappears. After moving the cursor back to the
1st document, the Fields dialog reappears, not to the useful position where I
dragged it, but back on top of the 2nd document!
This repositioning of dialog boxes when multiple documents are open is really
annoying. Any positioning of the dialogs for a document is undone if the cursor
moves into another document! Worse yet, if I place the document windows on top
of each other at one side of the screen, if the other edge of the windows
(left/right depending on which side of the screen the document is on) do not
line up EXACTLY, when the cursor moves outside the top document but happens to
cross over a visible pixel in another document, all the dialog boxes disappear
for document 1 and appear for document 2 IN COMPLETELY USELESS LOCATIONS!
If the user moves a dialog box for a document, please remember where the user
put it so that the next time the same dialog box is opened, whether to add
fields again or from switching back and forth between multiple documents, the
dialog box can be reopened IN EXACTLY THE SAME LOCATION WHERE THE USER PUT IT
BEFORE!
P.S. If the screen layout has changed in between openings of a dialog box, such
as when a laptop is docked or undocked, try to put the box where it was before.
If that is not possible, such as when a secondary screen is unplugged, feel
free to put the dialog anywhere where it is visible on the remaining screen.
Thank you.
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