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------- Additional comments from [email protected] Sat Aug 21 10:27:21 +0000 2010 ------- One reason why this issue still is "flopping" are comments like yours: you don't know what you are talking about. The issue is not about how a document shall be opened if "Calc is selected". That already works in OOo since years: select a file in your file explorer, use "Open with" and select Calc, however that works on your system. Or use the command line and either type "scalc $MYFILE" or "soffice -Calc "$MYFILE". Here we are talking about OOo *guessing* which application should be used for a file if it looks as if it might be a good idea to use Calc, but the user didn't explicitly ask for Calc being used, as the "open file" dialog does not offer a place where that could be done. As IMHO it is impossible to differentiate between "delimited" and "not delimited" text files (as all text files contain "delimiters", see my last comment), guessing won't work. I still think that taking the document in the current window from where an "open file" dialog is started into account could be an option. That means; if this is a Calc document, the file being opened should be loaded into Calc, if possible, Writer should be the second choice. It could be a surprise for old users, but it's nothing one couldn't get used to. Maybe that's what you meant when you talked about "selecting Calc for opening the document", but that is an inappropriate description of the situation that only distracts from the real issue. OTOH: consequently, "csv" files then would be opened in Writer by default if the "open file" dialog is called from a Writer document, otherwise the behavior would be completely inconsistent. Is that what we want? BTW: at least all text files with "csv" and "xls" extension are opened in OOo with Calc since quite some time (OOo 2.x IIRC). That will solve that issue for many cases already. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
