Issue 54536

Summary:	File dialog does not remember last saved location
Product:	ui	Reporter:	renatoram <renato.ramonda>
Component:	ui	Assignee:	AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	issues
Version:	680m128
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux, all
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description renatoram 2005-09-13 09:34:16 UTC

File dialog does not remember last opened/saved location

Summary:

After opening or saving a file, subsequent file open or save operations should
reopen the last location by default. It opens the Home directory every time,
instead.

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1 - Open OOo, write some lines and choose "Save as". Choose a location different
from the default (e.g. /tmp)
2 - Choose New, write some lines and choose "Save as".
3 - The file chooser proposes you to save in $HOME instead of /tmp

Other info:
Tested in Fedora Core 4

Comment 1 mci 2005-09-13 10:13:26 UTC

Hi renatoram,

thanks for using and supporting OpenOffice.org...

I was able to reproduce your problem here on Ubuntu-Linux using m128 (from
ftp.linux.cz)...
OOo chooses to save in $HOME as default directory and not in /tmp...
This happens only if you change the opened file...

Comment 2 mci 2005-09-13 10:13:50 UTC

Hi renatoram,

thanks for using and supporting OpenOffice.org...

I was able to reproduce your problem here on Ubuntu-Linux using m128 (from
ftp.linux.cz)...
OOo chooses to save in $HOME as default directory and not in /tmp...
This happens only if you change the opened file...


MCI -> TM:
Hi TM,
Who's the "winner"??

Comment 3 renatoram 2005-09-13 10:25:15 UTC

To me it looks that mci is confirming my bugreport: OOo should always remember
the last opened/saved location (maybe better if separately for the two operations).

If I save a file in /tmp it's very probable and a sensible choice to suppose
that the next file I'll save will be in /tmp also. If it's not so then well,
I'll just navigate to the right place. If it is, I saved a lot of clicks to get
to my intended save location.
Defaulting to $HOME, however, has the least probability to get it right: how
many times do you save directly in $HOME?

If I'm working on some project I'll probably open and save several files from
the same (nested) folder.

Thanks for your time,
Renato

Comment 4 thorsten.martens 2005-09-16 09:13:43 UTC

TM->HRO: Please have a look.

Comment 5 hennes.rohling 2005-10-06 14:49:23 UTC

OOo remembers the last location for "File Open", but not for "Save as".

Comment 6 Mathias_Bauer 2005-11-11 17:15:19 UTC

I think that's something for our UI gang.

Comment 7 channi97 2007-02-06 20:15:32 UTC

This issue is already on this list for more than a year. I feel it is a very
important one, one an openoffice user can experience hundreds of times everyday,
one, if not resolved, could put you off openoffice.
I have no clue how difficult this might be, not knowing anything about
programming, but I would be ever so grateful if it is done...soon.
I'd like to love openoffice.

Comment 8 channi97 2007-02-06 20:17:52 UTC

This issue is already on this list for more than a year. I feel it is a very
important one, one an openoffice user can experience hundreds of times everyday,
one, if not resolved, could put you off openoffice.
I have no clue how difficult this might be, not knowing anything about
programming, but I would be ever so grateful if it is done...soon.
I'd like to love openoffice.

Comment 9 fiveqs 2007-12-29 00:28:02 UTC

At the moment, this is the only issue keeping me from installing OOo on my
Daughter's laptop. It's also making me go back to using Word/wordpad for the
work I'm doing now (lots of small files saved to the same place, major pain to
have to seek out the save location for every save).