On 5/30/26 11:47, Ben Cottrell wrote:
After observing some bugs in LO Writer, it seems that some hacks were
merged in as fixes:
- Table's losing their formatting after pressing Tab, to insert a new row.
- The selected style switching back to the style of the selected area,
after a few seconds. To get to the root style, I have to go through
multiple dialogs.
Other ones (possibly just bugs):
- On a multi-monitor setup, on GNOME, when LO Writer is docked on the
side closest to the other monitor display area (in my case, the right
side), the antialiasing (I presume) breaks and is a little blurry.
- Formatting inconsistencies, again, with style inheritance not being
followed.
Looking at the complexity of the LO codebase, I'm amazed it's even
possible to write hacks (I tried, but I couldn't). I like shiny
features, but I think the codebase complexity, and lack of attention to
basic bugs are connected: I take it that people like to work on cool
features, and it's hard to attract people to fix potholes. I wish we had
more people like Linus Torvalds, especially in the LO developer community.
Again, I've tried to understand and modify LO, but it was too hard.
Putting aside the complexity, if I could write working patches, I would
try. I'm glad LO works good enough for me now, anyway, with some
workarounds.
Hi,
search our Bugzilla for existing reports about the issues. If you don't
find any, create a separate report for each one:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugReport
Ilmari
