Look like a OSX specific problem. I didn't see the problem on SLED11 and Windows.

NOT reproducible with "LibreOffice  3.5.5.3  English UI/ German Locale  [Build-ID: 27122e39-92ed229-498d286-15e43b4-d70da21] on German WIN7 Home Premium (64bit) and reporter's sample, same with own samples.

IMHO indeed more or less all Document UI should be locked while such a dialog is open, but  I do not kono whether there exist user scenarios where it might be useful to have UI avalilable.

@Laurent Godard
With what version did you observe the problem?
Did that ever work for you on MAC with an older (may be OOo) version?


@Roman:
Can you confirm this problem

reproduced on LibrO 3.5.4
IIRC, the problem was the same on OOo

Yes, this is a MacOS X-specific issue. It is REPRODUCIBLE on MacOS X 10.6.8 (Intel) with
* LibreOffice 3.3.0 release
* LibreOffice 3.4.0 release
* LibreOffice 3.5.5.3 (Build-ID: 7122e39-92ed229-498d286-15e43b4-d70da21)
* LibreOffice 3.6.0.4 (Build ID: 932b512)
and also with
* Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0 (AOO340m1, build 9590, rev. 1327774);
therefore an old issue, probably inherited from OOo 3.x.

There are countless ways to reproduce this issue; a particularily easy one:
1) open a new Writer document
2) type some characters (optional)
3) select Format > Paragraph
4) Notice that still all menu items are active; so you can
5) select Format > Character:
now *two* modal dialogs are visible at the same time, stacked on top
to each other.

Really bad user experience ;-)

Background: maybe modal dialogs are not really modal in LibO, but are handled like non-modal dialog windows?

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Apparently the code makes no attempt to use application-modal dialogs on OS X, except for in the file picker. At least not using the normal Cocoa API for that as I could see no use of runModalForWindow, runModalSession, beginModalSessionForWindow or beginSheet. I wonder if this was ever on the radar of those doing the Mac OS X port. Or is it so that it is just a coincidence that the dialogs mentioned here are application-modal on Linux, is the intent from LO's point of view that they don't need to be?

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