79167 – UI: Opening the new "navigate by" for choosing the object to go back&forth opens the "big" navigation window, too

Bug 79167 - UI: Opening the new "navigate by" for choosing the object to go back&forth opens the "big" navigation window, too

Summary: UI: Opening the new "navigate by" for choosing the object to go back&forth op...

Status:	NEW

Alias:	None

Product:	LibreOffice
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Writer (show other bugs)
Version:	4.3.0.0.beta1
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	medium normal
Assignee:	Not Assigned
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Whiteboard:	EasyHack DifficultyBeginner SkillCpp
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Reported:	2014-05-24 07:02 UTC by riesslibo
Modified:	2015-01-23 08:24 UTC (History)
CC List:	8 users (show)

See Also:	43220
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Description riesslibo 2014-05-24 07:02:27 UTC

This is a little bit confusing for a (new) user, because there are now two places to choose object typs for navigation, he rather knows that the "big" navigation window is for direct navigation and the little one for choosing the object typ for the navigation arrows in the search&find symbol bar.
BTW, there are three different places to navigate in a document now, a symbol bar "Navigation" with back&forth, the navigation via different object types with back&forth and the "big" navigation window (free floating or at the side) with direct navigation to one obejct. 
I propose the "enhancement" (it is not a bug, but a little bit irritating) to consolidate the different features to navigate through a document in the big navigation window.

Comment 1 Joel Madero 2014-05-24 17:04:23 UTC

Asking for UX advice on this one. Thanks for reporting :)

Comment 2 sophie 2014-05-25 14:01:43 UTC

Hi, confirmed, for me it's a bug because if you have several workspaces open, it
has the effect to switch the view to another workspace because the
Navigator window is moved between two workspaces. Sophie

Comment 3 Marina Latini 2014-05-25 22:13:41 UTC

Confirmed on LibreOffice:
* Version: 4.3.0.0.beta1
* Build ID: 2e39c7e59c8fc8b16a54c3d981dceef27fb0c07f
LibreOffice installed with fresh user profile with Italian langpack and helppack.

OS: Ubuntu 13-10 x86_64
unity --version: unity 7.1.2

Steps to reproduce:
1) Open a new Writer document 
2) Fill it with text, tables, pictures, comments... 
3) Open the Find bar from Edit -> Find 
4) Click on "Navigate by" button

LibreOffice is still open but another workspace gets the focus

Comment 4 Jean-Baptiste Faure 2014-06-05 04:41:20 UTC

I agree with Sophie, it is a bug. In LO 4.3.0.0.beta2+ under Ubuntu (Unity window manager with 2 x 2 workspaces), I get both the small navigation toolbar and the Navigator window if it is closed. What is the most frustrating is that the small navigation toolbar always opens on another workspace.

Reset importance to normal and component to Writer.

Best regards. JBF

Comment 5 Jean-Baptiste Faure 2014-06-05 04:52:03 UTC

Hi Samuel,

It seems that your change on navigation toolbar has some weird side effect. Please could you have a look ?

Best regards. JBF

Comment 6 Samuel Mehrbrodt 2014-06-07 11:49:40 UTC

Sorry I don't have the time for this currently.
But this might be an easy hack.
Here's the code that gets executed when clicking the "Navigate by" button: http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/sw/source/uibase/uiview/view2.cxx#1060

This commit removed the old buttons from the scrollbar: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=3e8fe4d8e19be2ccd8f5bb898530e2f615a90321
And this commit added the buttons to the find bar: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=0f86895fcd1001324974d644a728152b97b22ab0

So to show only the small element selector window when clicking the "Navigate by" button, you need to reintroduce the code that was removed in the first commit ("SwNaviImageButton::Click" is the start point).

Comment 7 Björn Michaelsen 2014-12-02 10:53:09 UTC

adding LibreOffice developer list as CC to unresolved Writer EasyHacks for better visibility.

see e.g. http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/minutes-of-ESC-call-td4076214.html for details

Comment 8 Harald Koester 2014-12-13 22:41:36 UTC

I observed a strange behaviour allready before the move of the "Navigate by" button to the find bar (see bug 43220). I would expect that the navigation bar is displayed if the "Navigate by" button is clicked once and it will be closed again if the button is clicked again. But this has not worked correctly neither before the move nor in version 4.3.

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