https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168493
Bug ID: 168493
Summary: Expert Configuration: "Show only modified preferences"
shows lots of UNMODIFIED settings
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 25.8.1.1 release
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: LibreOffice
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
0. Open LibreOffice.
1. Go to:
- Tools > Options
- LibreOffice > Advanced
2. Press the "Open Expert Configuration" button.
3. Below the search bar:
- Turn the "Show only modified preferences" checkbox ON.
ACTUAL RESULTS
The list shows:
- Many "blank" categories
- = BUG!
- Many "not bold"/unchanged settings
- = BUG!
- Along with many "bold"/changed settings.
- = CORRECT
EXPECTED RESULTS
The list to ONLY SHOW:
- The actual "bold"/changed settings
- Categories/subcategories with "bold"/changed settings
For example, the very first category:
Checkbox OFF:
- org.openoffice.VCL
- Settings
- WM
- org.openoffice.VCL:ConfigurableSettings['WM']
- Menu
- org.openoffice.VCL:ConfigurableSettings['Menu']
- Transfer
- org.openoffice.VCL:ConfigurableSettings['Transfer']
Checkbox ON:
- org.openoffice.VCL
- Settings
- WM
- Menu
- Transfer
- PrintDialog
- DesktopManagement
Expected:
The entire "org.openoffice.VCL" category to not appear at all, because it looks
like all those settings/subcategories are unmodified!
- - -
Full Help > About LibreOffice info:
Version: 25.8.1.1 (X86_64)
Build ID: 54047653041915e595ad4e45cccea684809c77b5
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 22631); UI render: Skia/Vulkan;
VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
and same in last week's master (2025-09-12):
Version: 26.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: b33cc5a7388c1739ff4a02a84751800f3e3086ce
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 22631); UI render: Skia/Vulkan;
VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded
- - -
NOTE 1:
It seems like this is only an issue with a completely BLANK "Search" box.
In "Search", if you type in an example search like:
- Transfer
- Font
- Menu
the checkbox works as intended, and only "bold"/changed things appear.
So there's some sort of strange interaction between:
- BLANK "Search" box + "Show only modified" ON
- Expert Settings with a BLANK "Value" column
- - -
USE-CASE
I was actually trying to debug something—looking for a difference between my
"normal install" and my "Safe Mode" install—and I wanted to look at "all
modified settings" and see if I could spot some sort of potential advanced
setting that might explain my strange bug.
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