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title="UNCONFIRMED - Check For Updates not available if no document open"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111873">111873</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>Check For Updates not available if no document open
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<th>Product</th>
<td>LibreOffice
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<th>Version</th>
<td>5.4.0.3 release
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>All
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<th>OS</th>
<td>Mac OS X (All)
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<th>Status</th>
<td>UNCONFIRMED
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>minor
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>LibreOffice
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>brendan.simon@etrix.com.au
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<pre>Description:
The `Check For Updates` menu item is not available, because the `Help` menu is
not shown, unless I open a document (existing or new).
I should not be forced to open a document to check for updates.
A lot of macOS apps have this in the application menu.
Some other applications (e.g. FireFox, Thunderbird) have the check for update
as a separate button in the `About` dialog. I don't necessarily suggest this,
but it's an option (event though it's a two step process).
There may be other operations that also could benefit from being visible
without requiring a document to be open.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open LibreOffice (without any documents open).
2. No way to check if there are any updates.
Actual Results:
No `Check For Updates` menu item is available.
Expected Results:
I would expect to be able to search for updates at any time, whether or not any
documents are open.
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: No
Additional Info:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:54.0)
Gecko/20100101 Firefox/54.0</pre>
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