Issue 41609 - contents of Filter Selection dialog should be alphabetized or grouped
Summary: contents of Filter Selection dialog should be alphabetized or grouped
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 55152
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: 680m74
Hardware: All Linux, all
: P4 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: pb
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Keywords:
: 85762 (view as issue list)
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2005-01-29 19:23 UTC by bulbul
Modified: 2013-08-07 14:38 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description bulbul 2005-01-29 19:23:32 UTC 
In OOo 680m74, when you try to open a file whose format OOo can't decipher, the
Filter Selection dialog comes up. There are about 70 different items to chose
from, but they don't appear to be in any logical order. For example, the first
four times are:

   OOo 1.0 Text Document
   PSD Adobe Photoshop
   Web Page Query (OOo Calc)
   StarWriter 4.0

The makes it very hard to find the correct item. The items should either be
alphabetized or grouped in some other logical way (such as all text formats
together, then all spreadsheet formats, etc.). I think that alphabetizing is
both the easiest conceptually and in terms of implementation (since it could be
alphabetized on the fly).
Comment 1 justinclift 2005-02-20 03:53:25 UTC 
Hi,

Yes, this is definitely a pain in the arse.  This just occured (680m79) during a
"file recovery" and not even all the OOo document types are grouped together.  :(

Screenshot attached in case it helps.

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift
Comment 2 justinclift 2005-02-20 03:54:31 UTC 
Created attachment 22840 [details]
Screenshot of the extremely unhelpful listing.
Comment 3 michael.ruess 2005-02-21 15:59:19 UTC 
MRU->PB: the filter selection dialog should really have a better order. Perhaps
the order of the list in the fileOpen dialog.
Comment 4 gis2 2006-11-03 14:54:06 UTC 
Just want to chime in -- the filter selection dialog is really hard to use, as 
it is.

IMHO it should
- propose a filter based on the file extension (i.e. the Powerpoint filter 
for .ppt files)
- sort all other entries alphabetically
- provide a search line, that allows searching for e.g. "Powerpoint" and only 
show matching entries
Comment 5 michael.ruess 2008-01-31 19:43:02 UTC 
*** Issue 85762 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 6 kpalagin 2010-06-07 08:16:30 UTC 
dup of http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=55152.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 55152 ***
Comment 7 kpalagin 2010-06-07 08:17:00 UTC 
please vote for http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=55152.