Hidden tracking of changes might in some cases be a security issue, if one sends a document which contains tracked information not supposed to be available for recipient. Possibly when opening a document with hidden change tracking, an infobar could be displayed, or a status bar icon (this still be mostly unnoticed imo), or some other way of informing user about the mode (and how to proceed)?
Makes sense. Moving to NEW
The fix for Bug 83958 solves this problem on the following way: If there is at least one hidden tracked change in the opened document, Writer enables the Tracked Changes toolbar automatically with the icons of managing the changes. This doesn't depend on the state of recording changes (but if recording is enabled in the document, Writer always switches on the Tracked Changes toolbar, i.e. without hidden changes, too).
Reopened, because it's real need, because it's much less annoying, than the unbidden toolbar of the previous solution. Proposed solution: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/113792
László Németh committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/d89786054715b44aa983d0752484216825c74ae2 tdf#125909 tdf#141298 sw: show (Hidden) Track Changes infobar It will be available in 7.2.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Just to mention a case that I just came across, that shows where this is important: https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/306943 > I uploaded a small section of a paper I wrote to ask.libreoffice.org, to do > with a technical problem I am having with Writer. But I forgot that I had > track changes on (I was not showing the changes), so the entire document was > uploaded. Now I need to submit it for school, but plagiarism checkers are > finding it. ...
Verified in: Version: 7.2.0.0.alpha0+ (x64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 9df3aa7ea72d61462e430643f2a80906dce4e15b CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 17134; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: hu-HU (hu_HU); UI: en-GB Calc: threaded Thanks for fixing!