Zorin auto tiling vs Libreoffice Base

I notice a strange anomaly that I will report here in case another user runs into it. I am on Zorin 18 and I am using the auto tiling desktop, and I notice when I open any dialogue window for the first time in LibreOffice apps, the dialogue window is very tiny. In fact, if you are in full screen mode, you may not see it at all, as it tends to open mostly 'off screen' and only a tiny sliver of the window is visible.

Once you manually resize the dialogue box or use the keyboard to send it to the tile you want, it will resize and stay resized when you open it again.

I noticed this while making a form in LibreOffice Base and made a quick recording to illustrate what it's doing and how to fix it. I have since tried a few other LibreOffice apps and see the same issue, but again it's easy to correct.

Just updating with another anomaly I noticed. Every time I toggle design mode, the window shrinks.

You can report this as a bug on the LibreOffice maintainers site.

LibreOffice, as an application, should set the Window Geometry. If it sets none - the result will be just what you see in your clip.

Thank you, I wasn't sure if this was a LibreOffice issue or a Zorin 18 tiling issue.

I kind of hate to report it to the LibreOffice maintainers. I gather from an issue I researched on the internet as to why the Image Buttons don't work (the Push Buttons give a limited design choice and I was hoping to use my own images as form controls), the maintainers are over extended and the code is monolithic and hard to follow. I really hate to bother them with something that probably does not impact many people when their time could be used solving more important issues.

I might put it out there though, maybe I will be surprised. I recently reported an issue on Ventoy 1.0.9 and was very surprised that longpanda had a CI release for me to test the next day, and released 1.1.10 with the fix a few days later. If it's something simple like Window Geometry (if that is something simple) it might be a quick fix too.

I recommend reporting the issue.

We cannot let developers down by thinking we are doing them a favor by withholding bug information.

For me, as One Person that develops my own applications, I wanted to hear any and every problem. Because I assumed at release that there would be a bug somewhere - and no one would bother telling me.

They can delegate or work at the pace they need.

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Thanks @Aravisian it's good to hear that perspective. I will definitely report this issue when I get home tonight.

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