[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 129870] New: Browser based help not aware of Windows 10 'Task View' - 'Virtual DesktopManager', can open system web browser displaying help in wrong workspace

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129870

            Bug ID: 129870
           Summary: Browser based help not aware of Windows 10 'Task View'
                    - 'Virtual DesktopManager', can open system web
                    browser displaying help in wrong workspace
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 6.0.0.3 release
          Hardware: All
                OS: Windows (All)
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Documentation
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: vstuart.foote at utsa.edu
                CC: olivier.hallot at libreoffice.org

>From message posted to LO Users mail list:

Jan 06, 2020; 8:13pm — by snowshed
<quote>
I found a less than desirable design flaw, at least while using Task 
Views in Windows 10.  Did anyone actually try it?

Have LO running in one view.  Have your browser open in another view. 
In LO, press F1 to open the help file.  It opens in the browser in a 
different task view, not in the view where LO is.  So you have to switch 
views, disconnect the help tab, and move the new browser window to the 
view where LO is.

What happened to the simplicity of having the help file simply open in a 
dedicated window in the same view as LO?
</quote>

The Windows 10 'Task View' button, and the 'Virtual Desktop Manager' [1]
workspaces require new native code to link launch of the system browser holding
the new Help (offline or project served) to the calling instance of
LibreOffice.

Otherwise the launch of the user's chosen web browser can be into any workspace
and require the actions described to relocate it to the same virtual desktop
where LibreOffice is running.

=-ref-=
[1]
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/shobjidl_core/nn-shobjidl_core-ivirtualdesktopmanager

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