Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 58443
styles windows opens without focus
Last modified: 2013-02-07 21:55:01 UTC
It's may sound silly, and stupid, but affects productivity. In earlier versions, like 1.1.4, when I was editing a text document and want to change title style, I just pressed F11, the styles windows opened and selected my desired style, all of this with keyboard. Now, when trying 2.0, I tried to do the same, but when I pressed F11 style window opened... WITHOUT FOCUS! I have to take my right hand over the keyboard and move to my mouse, because my KDE, if I press Alt+Tab, change window, but styles window never take focus. If I press Ctrl+Tab, change virtual desktop. I know this may sound simple issue, but really affects productivity, and is disturbing. Hope this defect could be solved. regards Mauro Dionisi Mendoza - Argentina
Reassigned to ES
*** Issue 58444 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Confirmed. ->SSA: your area?
ssa->pl: On Windows the focus moves into the floater (stylist or navigator) so I assume that this is the wanted behaviour...
I'm regressing to the earlier version of Ubuntu (5.04) because of this bug. I'm currently tech-editing a book, and this bug makes OOo unusable (because the edits are written directly into the document and need to be in a specific style).
After some experimentation, I've figured out that this bug was introduced in 1.1.5, presumably as part of the code that turned the style palette into a sidebar. It was difficult to make this determination, because it turns out that my new motherboard isn't supported by older kernels, and 1.1.4 is not available for download anymore. This is not acceptable. Either keep older versions around or make x.y.N+1 versions ONLY bugfix releases.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "change turning the style palette into a side bar". There was no such change. But "sidebar" sounds as if you simply docked the stylist, if this is so, then you can simply undock it again by pressing Ctrl and double clicking into an stylist area (that is somewhere it is usually grey, not inside the listbox).
Ah-ha! You're correct about the docked vs undocked. Nevertheless, this bug was introduced in 1.1.5 -- I just checked. A bit that may help: when using F11 to activate the stylist, not only does the style window not get focused, but the document window loses focus. The doc window losing focus only happens when the stylist is undocked. Note that I still suspect that the docking behavior is related: 1.1.5 makes the stylist docked by default, which it was not in 1.1.4. Also note that when docked in 1.1.4, the stylist does not receive focus when pressing F11. Final note: checking against 2.0, I find that I cannot dock the stylist at all. (Doesn't bother me because I'd never want it docked, but that may help you track down what happened.)
Hi, After reading this comments, and seeing that this defect is not critical I started looking for alternatives. Once upon a time, 9 years ago I only used MS Word. As I can remember, to change styles I could use Ctrl+Shift+1 (2,3,etc). After 5' looking at Tools, Customize, Keyboard I founded that Ctrl+1, Ctrl+2 and Ctrl+3 change paragraph's style to Heading 1, 2 and 3. I use until level 4, so I changed Cltr+4 to Paragraph Styles -> Heading 4. So, aahzpython, just like me, can continue editing with full productivity using this Shortcuts. :-D regards Mauro Dionisi Mendoza - Argentina
Many thanks! I still want this bug fixed, but this certainly is an acceptable workaround.
I found the same problem - and it is really distracting. I have problems with my wrist due to RSI - so I want to avoid as much of using mouse as possible. Thanks for the shortcuts, they are helpfull but I really look forward to have the bug fixed :-)
Hi, Stylist gets focus on opening (checked with 2.2 on XP and 2.0.3 on Debian) So is fixed lately. Set to closed, Fixed.
Found out that there is s difference between Stylist in docked and undocked status. When docked, Stylist indeed doesn't get focus. Checked with 2.2 on Debian and XP
change OS and version
this is more of a change request, because currently the stylist and navigator pop up intentionally without focus (Window::Show called with SHOW_NOACTIVATE flag). I guess the reason is that the state of the stylist and navigator is persistent, so whenever you open a new document, it would would open with a focused stylist or navigator - which is kind of not handy.
see also issue 93515 which makes Show with SHOW_NOACTIVATE more reliable on the X11 platforms.
@pl: your comment makes me think of issue 81467 "Opened Navigator, when docked, grabs focus on starting new document". Also seems related.
I've just tested this with: OOo 2.4 on Ubuntu 8.04.3. Linux 2.6.24-24-server #1 SMP Sat Aug 22 00:59:57 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux OpenOffice.org 2.4.1 openoffice.org-core 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.1 Linux 2.6.28-15-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Tue Aug 18 19:25:34 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 openoffice.org-core 1:3.0.1-9ubuntu3 When I press F11, styles window appears and focused. After pressing Alt+Tab, focus returns to Document window. It's working!!! I think that this behavior should be tested on more platforms in order to close this issue. thanks.
@ tango: When I test on XP, with the Stylist *docked*, it still does not have the focus... Are you sure you tried with a docked panel?