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title="UNCONFIRMED - [UI] Allow users to turn off toolbar auto-hiding"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107388">107388</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>[UI] Allow users to turn off toolbar auto-hiding
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<th>Product</th>
<td>LibreOffice
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<th>Version</th>
<td>5.2.6.2 release
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>x86-64 (AMD64)
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<th>OS</th>
<td>Windows (All)
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<th>Status</th>
<td>UNCONFIRMED
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>enhancement
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>Impress
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>dieweltherrschaft@arcor.de
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<pre>Description:
Upgrading from LO 3.something to LO 5.2.6.2 and continuing to work on my
Presentation with Impress, I noted how the text formatting toolbar is gone by
default. Assuming it was deselected, I reselected it from the View → toolbars
menu. However, it disappeared again after I clicked a textbox and then clicked
somewhere else.
I note that this is intended behaviour of LO and was introduced somewhere en
route from LO3 to LO5. However, I do not approve of this intended behaviour.
Auto-removing the toolbar in my layout leaves a large grey area between the
standard toolbar and the presentation slides which is not used for anything.
This is both visually unappealing and a waste of screen real estate.
I do note that some (if not many or most) users prefer to have the text
formatting toolbar free-floating rather than fixed in the layout. They
obviously profit from the toolbar’s auto-hiding behaviour. To me, it is
counter-productive, and a quick Google search (and searching the bug pages
here) shows me I am not the only one.
A hacky work-around has been suggested on various sites: to create a custom
toolbar and have it replace the text formatting toolbar. I do not like the
approach because it requires additional work from my side that could be spent
on the actual things I have to do.
Instead, I wish to suggest a customisation possibility: give users a checkbox
for each auto-hiding toolbar, which allows them to select whether they desire
the behaviour or not. I hope that this will bring together the best of both
worlds: auto-hiding toolbars by default and the ability to turn off the feature
if one finds it irritating.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select View → Toolbars → Text formatting (Toolbar shows up)
2. Click a text box
3. Click somewhere else (Toolbar disappears)
Actual Results:
The text formatting toolbar is gone, leaving a vast grey area in the toolbar
space
Expected Results:
Leave the text formatting toolbar where it is after I select an option for it
to do so.
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: No
Additional Info:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:22.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/22.0</pre>
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