[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125543] Calc window width and height resize to zero when unmaximizing

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125543

--- Comment #12 from Dan <bugs at uplandsdynamic.com> ---
(In reply to Jean-François Fortin Tam from comment #11)
> This bites me almost daily because whenever I open Calc by opening a
> document, and it opens maximized, and I un-maximize the window
> (Super+downarrow key in GNOME), it ends up becoming a 1x1 pixels (or
> something like that) micro window that is barely noticeable.
> 
> Non-technical users (like many people in my extended family, who don't know
> the keyboard shortcuts to un/maximimize) would be pretty flustered by that
> and will end up with a "broken" app practically speaking.
> 
> > SetMinOutputSizePixel sets the minimum size below which a window cannot be shrunk, which is probably not whats wanted.
> 
> Actually that's exactly what I would want, at least as the fallback for
> undefined states where the app can't figure out what the appropriate default
> size would be. Make it enforce a hard minimum of 600x400 at the very least.
> 
> Why would anyone ever want to have a LibreOffice Calc/Writer/etc. main
> window sized anywhere smaller than 640x480 pixels? It seems to me that it
> could safely be assumed to be the absolute minimum to which a main app
> window can no longer be shrunk, because it's no longer usable below that
> size (even the toolbars would eat half of the height). Even phones these
> days have at least 720px in one dimension or the other, and no VGA output
> that I know shrinks below 640x480 even in disaster scenarios.

I'm also experiencing exactly the same issue, running KDE Neon. In fact, I
cannot even find the 'pixel' on my display and need to force-close the app. It
really is an absurd situation - clearly a bug and not a feature!

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