[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 118550] EDITING: Manage Styles Dialogue (F11) became unusable.

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118550

--- Comment #3 from V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote at utsa.edu> ---
(In reply to Albrecht Müller from comment #2)
> The dialogue works when I start Writer in save mode. It appears in the
> sliding window on the right. I reset the profile - this also works. This
> means I actually lost all my configuration information.

OK, then we know it is not a hardware issue. Also, you did not loose your "old"
configuration details because you have the original Zip of the profile--of
course it is still broken.

> 
> Unfortunately the user interface is not very clear about how to restore the
> user profile from a backup. There are two checkboxes:
> 
> "Restore user configuration to the last known working state"
> and
> "Restore state for installed user extension to the last known working state".
> 
> Where does LibreOffice get this "last known working state" from? How can I
> tell LibreOffice to restore exactly the state I saved into
> libreoffice-profile.zip?

Good question, I've not poked at it that much. Prefer to just rebuild my
profile and customizations, YMMV.

> 
> For now I cannot restore the profile from the backup in the .zip-file. So I
> cannot reproduce the problem any more.
> 
> After the creation of the .zip I compared its content with the user
> directory. There were a lot of differences. Therefore I did not try to
> simply unpack the .zip file into the user directory.

Deleting the "clean" profile, and simply unpacking the .zip of the "old" broken
profile is the means to restore the old profile--each attempt--at resolving the
issue with the Styles (F11) content panel in the Sidebar.  

There is a lot of junk that builds up over time in the user profile--so your
choice about trying to tease out what is causing the problem, or of rebuilding
the profile and customizations.

Given that it is happening on the F11 Styles panel, suggests there is a broken
Paragraph style defined. Although I guess it could be any of Paragraph,
Character, Frame, Page, List or new Table style defined that is no longer
valid.

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