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[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <mail@xxxxxxxxx>]

** Changed in: unity
       Status: New => Confirmed

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1115944

Title:
  Unity hiding open LibreOffice files

Status in Unity:
  Confirmed
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  A small office that just converted to Ubuntu 12.10 is having problems
  with opening / finding open LibreOffice documents in Unity. The issue
  seems to be that if any arbitrary document is already open in
  LibreOffice, on any workspace, then clicking on the file in the file
  manager does nothing. The file is not opened in another instance. The
  running instance is not brought to the forefront. No error, warning,
  or notice is given. Absolutely no feedback is returned to the user,
  who might not be aware that another instance is running with the file
  already open.

  From conversations on the mailing list it seems that Unity does show a
  small symbol next to the LibreOffice icon when the document is
  clicked. This went completely unnoticed by the users of Ubuntu and by
  myself while trying to actually work with the system. In fact, one
  user had resorted to reseting the computer each time she needed to
  open a document that "would not open".

  Please change the behaviour of Unity to bring the running LibreOffice
  instance to the forefront when the user clicks on a document that is
  already open.

  Thank you.

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