Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 4019
New "Paths" info not applied
Last modified: 2009-06-13 23:01:32 UTC
When changing the path to "My Documets" (Tools>Options>OpenOffice.org>Paths), the editted data is not applied. When saving-as, the default directory is the orginal, not the editted directory. Moving to the desired directory using the "Open" dialog and clicking on "Default" button does affect the change permanently.
Does this refer to the bug where a Linux install using the "-net" switch installs fine, but then has all the paths ( Tools/Options//OpenOffice.org/Paths ) set to the system-wide installation's subdirectories? ( like Backups /opt/OpenOffice.org/backup My Documents /opt/OpenOffice.org/work ) Or is it a different bug? Perhaps it refers to ( I hit this, before I figured out that the total-lack-of-feedback with the -net install meant success and that there /wasn't/ a second-stage to it ) the bit where one installs it system-wide /without/ the "-net" switch and discovers that no user can save personal data / config information? ( how come it can't use "~/backups" or some such, and create / ask-to-create the necessary dirs if needed? ) Right: I just checked, and with a "-net" install, it gets the default paths fucked-up, but one /can/ correct whatever ones one can figure-out how to correct ( my documents, etc, but does the autotext or autocorrect directory need to be user-writeable? ). Any changes to these paths /are/ saved from session to session. I'm using 641D/Linux ( a soon-to-be-ditched Caldera 3.1 Openlinux -- going to SuSE because Caldera went institutional, and the inert aren't partners with me. . . ) I /don't/ know if my setting of paths ( My Documents etc ) screws up other users of the program ( I don't know if these changes are being saved locally to my account or if they are being put in some global setting ), simply because I don't /have/ any other users on this system at the moment ( except root, and running heavy UI's and java and misc from root /isn't/ on. . . )
Null here. . . Ah HA! //now// I notice the comment-field from the original post is written /below/ this issue's entire listing. . . <sigh> I think the issue is identified by my comment about a system-wide install being done without the "-net" switch. --original update starts here-- Does this refer to the bug where a Linux install using the "-net" switch installs fine, but then has all the paths ( Tools/Options//OpenOffice.org/Paths ) set to the system-wide installation's subdirectories? ( like Backups /opt/OpenOffice.org/backup My Documents /opt/OpenOffice.org/work ) Or is it a different bug? Perhaps it refers to ( I hit this, before I figured out that the total-lack-of-feedback with the -net install meant success and that there /wasn't/ a second-stage to it ) the bit where one installs it system-wide /without/ the "-net" switch and discovers that no user can save personal data / config information? ( how come it can't use "~/backups" or some such, and create / ask-to-create the necessary dirs if needed? ) Right: I just checked, and with a "-net" install, it gets the default paths fucked-up, but one /can/ correct whatever ones one can figure-out how to correct ( my documents, etc, but does the autotext or autocorrect directory need to be user-writeable? ). Any changes to these paths /are/ saved from session to session. I'm using 641D/Linux ( a soon-to-be-ditched Caldera 3.1 Openlinux -- going to SuSE because Caldera went institutional, and the inert aren't partners with me. . . ) I /don't/ know if my setting of paths ( My Documents etc ) screws up other users of the program ( I don't know if these changes are being saved locally to my account or if they are being put in some global setting ), simply because I don't /have/ any other users on this system at the moment ( except root, and running heavy UI's and java and misc from root /isn't/ on. . . )
Reassigned to FS
Dick, your bug description is rather ... unintuitive. Are you working on windows? If so, are you using the system file open dialog, or the internal one (check this under Tools/Options/General)? If the system dialog: which Windows? What is the "Default" button? Do you mean the "default directory" in the upper left corner of the internal file dialog?
"null@openoffice.org", I reset the target milestone. Silently setting a target without any justification, is not the way IssueZilla should work, in my opinion. We can discuss this, though I admit I tend to saying it's no "next build" issue. The bug (if it is one) is somewhat irritating, but there seem to exist a one-click workaround (if I understand Dick's original description correctly), so I don't see a reason to impose such a pressure on it. Frank
Dick, sorry for my questions, I just saw that the OS was set to "Linux", so please forget my questions about your platform :). Still the question about the default button remains, though now that I know you use the internal dialog I assume that you mean the upper-left button. Frank
In the upper right hand corner of the internal dialog are three buttons: "up one level", "create new directory" and "default directory" (I apologize, I think I originally referred to the last button as just "default".) If one enters the "Paths" sequence within the "Preferences" under "Tools" and changes the path to "My Documents", that change does not become the default selection upon using "File>Open" (or from the toolbar). The original value is presented as the default _until_ one clicks on the "default directory" button within the internal dialog. Only then will the new value be used as the default from then on. I'm sorry about being wordy, but it seems to me that once I've changed the value within "Tools", that new value ought to be asserted immediately! I did a straight single-user install on OO.o since this is my personal machine. I'm running OO.o on a RH 7.2 system with Ximian desktop. I was a SO 5.2 user.
Dick, thanks for the clarification, and: please continue beeing wordy :). I always strive to, ehm, educate :) submitters of issues to be wordy - the more info, the better. can reproduce this on windows (with the internal file dialog), too -> OS=all Anyway, I'm not really sure if this is a bug. The point is, the file open dialog remembers the last location where it was used, and this location is restored upon the next open (_this_ certainly is a feature, not a bug :). In this sense, your problem is a bug (only?) if you did not use the file open dialog before (e.g. there does not exist a directory from the "previous incarnation" of the dialog). Perhaps we could add some additional magic which would recognize that the previous folder is the "old" workfolder, and the new workfolder is different, and in this case switch to the new folder. But this would be expensive (some instance would have to remember what the old folder is and tell it to the dialog the next time it is opened), and I see a rather small gain from this (there still is this one-click workaround, isn't it?).... Besides that, I'm no friend of magic - it always causes trouble later on :) Frank
setting target milestone to "OOo 2.0" - I don't see this for 1.1, if any ...
"According to the OpenOffice.org roadmap (http://tools.openoffice.org/releases) this issue was retargeted to OOo Later."
accepting
Hi, I know this issue is quite old and "inactive", but it seems to be the right one: As it is mentioned in your earlier postings, OOo obviously remembers the last directory/folder/path, where you have opened or saved files. So the file-dialogues don't show the default-directory as it is set in Tools/Preferences. My problem is that I don't have any button "Default directory" in the open- or save-file windows. (Using OOo 2.0.1 ger on Windows.) The result seems to be: I have configured a so called "default directory" which is in fact no default, since I only can reach it by manually clicking through the whole folder tree - whenever I have used another directory exceptionally (disk, USB-stick, network, desktop). (By the way, is this losely related to Issue 3492?) As an alternative, I can set OOo at Tools->Preferences->OpenOffice.org->Common to activate "Open/Save-dialogues: Use OOo dialoagues" These (I'm sorry) OOo-own windows give me the "default"-button, but they are quite uncommon for the common user - I've spent hours explaining my dad how it works... Besides, here I miss the shortcut-buttons from the Windows-dialogues linking to Desktop and network directories. Would you mind to add an option under Tools->Preferences to toggle, that OOo shall a) *always* save/load to the default directory or b) to the last one used (as it does at the moment)? I think, a) would be the behaviour the average computer user (including MSO-migrants) expects. Bye, thank you! Dirk.
Works as designed.
Closing