Bug 65704

Summary:	UI: Sound and media panel UI stays forever in Writer, and is slow to open sounds
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	yohann.math
Component:	Writer	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	medium	CC:	courrier.oou.fr.mjk, guilleron29
Version:	4.0.4.2 release	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Linux (All)
See Also:	https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65765 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57526
Whiteboard:	infoprovider:yohann.math@gmail.com BSA
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description yohann.math 2013-06-13 09:35:28 UTC

Problem description: 

Using the gallery, when chosing a sound to include in an odt document, a new panel appears (with a Open file, play button, media length bar, and so on).
It seems to make libreoffice EXTREMELY SLOW and it takes about 10 seconds to have a 1-second sound played on a thinkpad t420s with Intel Core i7 4GB Ram. Even to repeatdly play the same sound once

Moreover, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO GET RID OF the newly appeared panel to give an interface to play sound 

Now, I always have this panel in my UI in LibreOffice Writer whatever I do. I tried to hide every UI component, this one stays there.

Trying to reopen Writer has no effect, i'm going to uninstall and reinstall.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open the media gallery via the button in the UI
2. Select some sounds, play with it, try to include it in a document, delete it
3. play with 

Current behavior:
When I close the "gallery", the panel for opening movies and sound stays open. No button or no option menu can hide it. It stays now forever, even for new documents, using a significant part of my LibreOffice Writer window.



Expected behavior:
Having a "close" button or have an entry in the "toolbars" menu view to close it.
+  Not being so slow
Operating System: Fedora
Version: 4.1.0.0.beta1

Comment 1 Jacques Guilleron 2013-06-13 17:07:13 UTC

Hello Yohann,

On each side of your Writer window, at middle height, you have a new button (five vertical points enclosed with triangles). By clicking on it, you hide the media panel on the left side and the sidebar on the right.
You can also slide the window border to get the same thing.

No issue for me concerning the time, no slowing down.
Perhaps a linux issue?

LO 4.2.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: c36348f20c4fcb6ae1acb0fd06c19edfa9fb108 
Windows 7 Home Premium.

Have a nice day,

Jacques Guilleron

Comment 2 Thomas Hackert 2013-06-20 13:21:12 UTC

Hello yohann, *,
I cannot confirm it w/ LO Version: 4.1.0.1
Build ID: 1b3956717a60d6ac35b133d7b0a0f5eb55e9155 and installed Germanophone lang- as well as helppack under Debian Testing AMD64. It neither slows down my system nor I am not able to close the Media Playback toolbar ... ;)

Did you try to close the toolbar via "View - Toolbars - Media Playback"? Does it close then? And wrt to LO slowing down your system: Which Java version are you using?

Sorry for the inconvenience
Thomas.

Comment 3 Goran Rakic 2013-06-21 11:57:32 UTC

When you dock the media player there is no close button on the window. There is no option in the menu to show or hide the media player like there is in Impress (Tools > Media Player).

To hide the media player in Writer you need to use the trick. Click and drag on any empty space in the media player region. The window should popup and there will be a close button.

The media player shows when you double click on any sound in the galery.
There should be a menu option to hide the media player in Writer. In Calc you can not double click on a sound in the galery and the media player does not show.

Tested with LibreOffice 4.0.4 release, but I think this goes back too. I am switching importance to minor as a clear workaround exists.

Comment 4 manj_k 2013-06-22 21:38:34 UTC

See also: Bug 57526 - Cannot close or remove Media Player

(Duplicate)

Comment 5 Thomas Hackert 2013-06-23 13:52:47 UTC

Hello Goran, *,
(In reply to comment #3)
> When you dock the media player there is no close button on the window. There

but yohan has not written anything, that he docks the media player ... ;) And when I dock it, I can easily undock it again and close it then ... ;)

> is no option in the menu to show or hide the media player like there is in
> Impress (Tools > Media Player).

If I undock the media player in Writer, I have the usual "x" on the right to close it, or can use <Alt>+<F4> ... ;)

> To hide the media player in Writer you need to use the trick. Click and drag
> on any empty space in the media player region. The window should popup and
> there will be a close button.

That does not work for me w/ LO Version: 4.1.0.1 Build ID: 1b3956717a60d6ac35b133d7b0a0f5eb55e9155 and installed Germanophone lang- as well as helppack under Debian Testing AMD64 and KDE 4.8.4 ... :(

> The media player shows when you double click on any sound in the galery.
> There should be a menu option to hide the media player in Writer. In Calc
> you can not double click on a sound in the galery and the media player does
> not show.

OK, but that would be another bug (or better feature request ... ;) ).

> Tested with LibreOffice 4.0.4 release, but I think this goes back too. I am
> switching importance to minor as a clear workaround exists.

OK
Thanks for your additional information
Thomas.

Comment 6 adam1eveleigh 2014-11-24 11:59:57 UTC

With LO version 4.2.7.2 it is possible to click and drag the media player to get the 'X' up to close it but it took me a few attempts. I agree with the previous posters, there should be a menu entry to close it. This is massively counter-intuitive at the moment and it's no wonder that so many people think LO is old-fashioned.

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