[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 #6 from Albrecht Müller <albrecht.mueller at astrail.de> ---
Thanks for your information. Based on it I dared to experiment with the user
profile directory. That's the current state of affairs:

I found out that Windows happened to save a backup of the "user" directory just
a day before the problem appeared. This way I could restore an almost current
working state (great Windows feature!). I put the directory containing the
"user" directory under git version control and saved this version. I then
replaced the contents of the "user" directory with the contents of the
libreoffice-profile.zip file I generated using LibreOffice's Safe Mode and
committed this version too.

The comparison of the two commits showed that the backup created by LibreOffice
has some defects:
- It seems to contain no or wrong timestamps.
- The names of some files in the "wordbook" subdirectory  were different.
LibreOffice seems to replace spaces, umlauts and some other characters by the
percent encoded representation of their UTF-8 codes. I observed this effect in
some other directories too. This led to some problems with spell checking. I
did not look for problems this may cause in other areas.

With respect to the "Manage Styles" dialogue the two profiles behave as
expected. It is functional when I use the profile restored from the Windows
backup, and it does not work when I use the version from the .zip. This way I
can reproduce the problem. When I copied the registrymodifications.xcu from the
version that does not work into the one that does the "Manage Styles" dialogue
ceases to work. So I think the problem is related to the contents of this file.

I could test the "bad style hypothesis" - it seems to be wrong. In a not
working profile I changed the stanza you mentioned to toggle the preview styles
checkbox. Unfortunately the "Manage Styles" dialogue disappears as before. In
the flickering dialogue box (repeating F11 key) I could see that the checkbox
did not use style preview, i.e. the checkbox is off.

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