Unity hiding open LibreOffice files

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Tue Feb 5 06:09:02 UTC 2013


On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 4 February 2013 18:34, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> What do you mean when you say it is open on any desktop?  Are you
>>> talking about the same file being open on a different PC or are you
>>> talking about workspaces on one PC? Or what?
>>>
>>
>> I mean that there exists a LibreOffice window open with the document
>> loaded in memory. The LibreOffice window may or may not be on the
>> 'virtual desktop' that the user is currently viewing. The file is not
>> open on any other computer, it is a file on the local hard drive, open
>> in a local LibreOffice instance.
>
> I am not seeing that in Precise or Quantal.
> Open Nautilus and browse to folder containing LO document
> Double click the document to open LO
> Switch back to Nautilus so the document is behind it
> Double click the file again and it is brought to the front.
>
> I do see a problem if the open document is moved to a different
> workspace (is that what you mean by virtual desktop?).  In that case
> when I double click it in nautilus the LO icon in the launcher
> jiggles, but that is all, and it only does that the first time.  It is
> not limited to LO however, I see the same issue with pdf documents
> opened in Document Viewer.
>
> I don't know whether this was a design decision or a bug.  Does anyone know?
>
> Colin
>

Thank you Colin. Whether this was a design decision or a programming
error, it is unexpected behaviour and therefore a bug. I just caught
the secretary restarting her computer to open documents! Here is the
bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1115944


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