https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148755
Bug ID: 148755
Summary: A Quirk in the focusing property of the Navigator
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 7.4.0.0 alpha0+ Master
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
End of June 2021 I first observed that the Navigator adjusts itself to the
proper headline associated to the current editing position. The item belonging
to the edit position in the Edit window gets highlighted. That's something
which has long been missing and which is very useful.
Now I found something inconsistent with that: If the edit position in the edit
window is in a table, the highlight moves to the relevant entry in the Tables
category, if it is in a section, the highlight jumps to the proper entry in the
Sections category.
When writing a larger document, the main hierarchy of things is by headline
order. Being able to associate some place in the document to the surrounding
headlines hierarchy is the main concern. Only in very special cases one might
want to locate an image in the list of all images or a table in the list of all
tables and so on.
Locating something in another category than the one highlighted
(Headings/Images/Sections/Table, ..., topmost drop-down setting of Navigator)
is not meaningful, especially jumping to sections instead of headlines is
bizarre.
Sometimes I use tables because they make the location of inserted images more
predictable than if I insert them into the text (e.g. anchored to paragraphs).
If - as e.g. often in user manuals - many short text passages and corresponding
illustrations follow one after another, it may even make sense to place
headings in tables as well. If you do this, however, you lose the nice feature
of the navigator that you can continuously see how a text is positioned in the
hierarchy of associated headings: The navigator suddenly shows the position in
the hierarchy of tables (or sections, if the text passage is in a section).
Expected behavior:
I expect the navigator to always show the location of the bookmark in the
editing window with respect to the category selected in the navigator's
drop-down list of categories at the top left (really useful there are headings,
tables, maybe sections. For hyperlinks, I can only imagine that it might make
sense to highlight the next hyperlink before the position of the bookmark in
the editing window).
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