Issue 111031 - Recently used files combo box in "insert picture" of OOo dialogs contains all document types, not only pictures
Summary: Recently used files combo box in "insert picture" of OOo dialogs contains all...
Status: CONFIRMED
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Product: General
Classification: Code
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 3.2
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Keywords: needmoreinfo, oooqa
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Reported: 2010-04-21 08:52 UTC by tfischer
Modified: 2017-02-11 04:15 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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screenshots showing difference for combo box in OOo and WIN dialog (237.76 KB, application/pdf)
2010-04-21 16:47 UTC, Rainer Bielefeld
no flags Details
Insert Picture dialog in Linux (41.56 KB, image/png)
2010-04-22 08:54 UTC, tfischer
no flags Details

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Description tfischer 2010-04-21 08:52:22 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.
Comment 1 Rainer Bielefeld 2010-04-21 16:46:21 UTC
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?
Comment 2 Rainer Bielefeld 2010-04-21 16:47:44 UTC
Created attachment 69034 [details]
screenshots showing difference for combo box in OOo and WIN dialog
Comment 3 Rainer Bielefeld 2010-04-21 17:01:36 UTC
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.
Comment 4 tfischer 2010-04-22 08:47:49 UTC
@rainerbielefeld: I am using Gentoo Linux and OpenOffice 3.2.0 from package app-
office/openoffice-bin and "kde" as use flag.
Comment 5 tfischer 2010-04-22 08:54:14 UTC
Created attachment 69046 [details]
Insert Picture dialog in Linux
Comment 6 Rainer Bielefeld 2010-04-22 09:09:34 UTC
@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?
Comment 7 tfischer 2010-04-22 09:36:21 UTC
@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 ... ;-)