Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 32981
"Load URL" box on toolbar is missing
Last modified: 2008-05-17 23:51:49 UTC
In previous versions of OOo, there has been a combo box on the top toolbar, into which the URL of an OOo file can be typed in order to load that file, or a previously opened file can be chosen from a drop down list. I can't see any sign of this feature in the latest developer builds, so I request that it should be re-itroduced before the final release of OOo2, at least as an option.
confirming. I want this back as well... (you may vote for this issue)
regression-keyword & defect because feature was present in OOo1.x
this feature will be reimplemented in one of the next builds. it is just set to hidden by default. i will close this issue as invalid. feel free to reopen it if this is not reimplemented in a OOo build in mid september.
why is this needed? take a URL to a OO doc, choose "File open ..." paste the URL into the "File name" box "Open" and there is the OO file opened from the url. why a special URL box?
How about because it's easier to use a simple box on the toolbar, users will be used to using it, etc... Going down that route, why have toolbars at all when everything that you can do using the toolbars can also be done using the menu/dialog structure? In fact, why use a computer at all? After all, it is possible to write a letter with a pen and paper. Anyway, this issue appears to be resolved, so I don't see nay need to discuss it any further.
SBA: Closed.
*** Issue 33978 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Sorry to nag, but it's past mid September now, and I still can't find this feature in OOo 1.9.54. Can anyone give me any idea when it will be done? PS - why was this closed as "invalid"? It seems to me to be a perfectly valid request.
SBA: I am please to see that people follow "their" issues and reopen them "in time" :-) SBA->TM: Component changed to "framework". Please take over. Even when it is "only" a flag that's hiding the URL box by default (in build 680m55 too...), it can only change "issue-driven". So this is the issue to get this done unless "somewhere" there is another one that we missed.
Change in design ! The standardbar doesn´t have an URL field anymore. So OOo works as designed. This is not a defect !
This IS a defect because this decreases the functionality of the previous versions - it is a regression. The url is very convinient not only for selection of a file to open but to see which file is opened in this window (the title can differ from the file name and path).
putting my votes on this, for whatever it's good for :) Two reasons why I love this control in the toolbox: - it's the easiest way to see which document you have opened (if the path is short enough) - it's the easies way (by far) to get the *complete* path to the file. For instance, I sometimes want to copy the file I just edited to somewhere else (exchanging it with somebody), or things like this. Copying the control-content to the clipboard, and pasting it to a console's copy command, is the fastest way by far ... Hmm. Both sounds very specific, but anyway, I loved this box :). Also, both sound as if they would normally belong to a File|Properties box ... Is there a reason in why the design does not allow this box to be available, but hidden by default? And no, please don't say "MS does not have it" ...
(I just voted for this issue and hope the fact that this feature is not in the present OO.o 2.0 build was actually a misunderstanding.) Please enable the functionality of the old "Load URL" box in OO.o 2.0. I need it to see where I am saving the document (ie the local file system path,not just http and www, etc). I always copy and paste file paths from and to that box as part of my daily work routine. In OO.o 2.0 pre alpha, I can show the "Internet URLs" box by choosing it under View - Toolbars - Hyperlink Bar, but it doesn't show the document path.
Pleased to see someone else reopened this issue, so it doesn't look like I'm single-handedly pushing it. The whole principal of rejecting an enhancment request because "it's not in the design" seems rather flawed to me. After all, it it WAS currently in the design, it wouldn't have needed to be requested in the first place! This approach definitely defeats the object of providing a medium for making enhancement requests. Also, I don't know who wrote these designs in the first place, but I don't understand how anyone can think that they are so infalible that they HAVE to be adhered to by the letter, against the will of the community, when OOo is supposed to be an open source project. I'm even more doubtful about these designs given that they appear to have one main aim of removing useful features for no apparent reason. Anyway I'm pleased I am not the only one to be interested in this issue.
TM->BH: Please have a look and discuss with CJ. This behaviour was implemented with our new docking and toolbar implementation and works as specified and designed. So this is (according our guidelines) definitly NOT a defect but might be a wish for an enhancement.
The Load-URL listbox will be available again in OO.o 2.0/SO8, when the CWS Toolbar03 is integrated.
Hello ed2, please check it in CWS Toolbar03 and close this issue then.
I've looked at for CWS Toolbar03, and can't seem to find it anywhere. Are you refering to CWS toolbars3? In this case, I can't find any reference to reintroduction of the Load URL box in any of the tasks in this CWS. Please clarify.
Hi, could someone give us a bit more info about the issue. Carsten, could you confirm that work on this issue is ongoing in CWS toolbars3? I
CD: The Open URL button is available, but NOT visible by default. You can make it visible using the configure button at the end of the standard bar. This is how works according to the specification from the user experience team: See specification here: http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/toolbars/Toolbar_content_spec.sxw
Thanks for the pointer. I use a German m60 and can't find the entry to make the URL control visible. The list of "Visible Buttons" starts with "Neues Dokument" (visible), then "Neues Dokument aus Vorlage" (invisible). But where is the URL entry? Any idea?
CD: This is fixed on CWS toolbars3, which is NOT integrated yet. So you cannot see on a master version.
The Issue you raised has been marked as 'Resolved' and not updated within the last 1 year+. I am therefore setting this issue to 'Verified' as the first step towards Closing it. If you feel this is incorrect, please re-open the issue and add any comments. Many thanks, Andrew Cleaning-up and Closing old Issues ~ The Grand Bug Squash, pre v3 ~ http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/announcementbeta.html
As per previous posting: Verified -> Closed. A Closed Issue is a Happy Issue (TM). Regards, Andrew