Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 111031
Recently used files combo box in "insert picture" of OOo dialogs contains all document types, not only pictures
Last modified: 2017-02-11 04:15:21 UTC
When inserting a picture into a document (e.g. both in text documents and drawings), the Insert -> Picture -> From File function can be used. This pops up a file dialog where a picture file can be selected. The combo box which allows to enter a filename directly (next to "File name:") has a list of recently used files. This file list, however, contains the recently *opened documents*, but not the recently used picture files. Therefore, the list of recently used file names is useless in this dialog. Of course, the recently used picture files should be shown.
Reproducible with "Ooo 3.1.1 WIN XP DE[OOO310m19 (Build 9420)]" and other Versions. WIN-Dialog grabs an useful selection from "recent documents" with selected document type, but OOo dialog presents a completely useless selection of documents, pls. see screenshots. @tfischer: With what OS(s) did you test?
Created attachment 69034 [details] screenshots showing difference for combo box in OOo and WIN dialog
That works some better in OOo dialog for "File -> Open", but not perfectly: Situation with WIN dialogs: When I press combo box pulldown, ALL types of documents will be shown, even .exe and similar After I have selected a document type, only documents of that type will be shown in Recent Used Documents combo box. That's fine. Situation with OOo dialogs: When I press combo box pulldown, Documents that can be opened with OOo will be shown, as it seems only a selection of documents that have been opened with OOo. Selection of a document type seems to be without influence, After I have selected "Text documents", the combo box still offers spreadsheet documents, PDF and others.
@rainerbielefeld: I am using Gentoo Linux and OpenOffice 3.2.0 from package app- office/openoffice-bin and "kde" as use flag.
Created attachment 69046 [details] Insert Picture dialog in Linux
@tfischer: Seems to be the same effect that I saw. I do not know whether for Linux OOo also 2 alternative dialogs are available. If yes, can you confirm that the problem only appears with OOo dialogs?
@rainerbielefeld: I am not aware of a setting to switch between native Linux dialogs and OOo dialogs, as there is no "native" UI toolkit in Linux. Still, the problem should be easy to trace: The list used in the dialogs is most likely the global MRU list instead of a special "picture" MRU. I would fix it myself if I had more time ... ;-)