Hello Steve !
I use OpenOffice all the time and, despite its quirks, like it a
lot. But one feature that constantly bugs me is the default location
for finding files to open or save, which as far as I can tell, is the
last place I did that operation (regardless of Office application).
Like (I suspect) many of your users, I create lots of documents on
many topics, and I organize them by context. I teach, prepare lectures
and exams, write papers, give talks, compose letters, etc., and I save
all these files in different directories. That pretty much guarantees
that OpenOffice will unerringly go to the wrong directory by default
when I open or save a document. I guess this is a bug-compatible
throwback to the convention used by MS Office, but some features just
shouldn't be emulated!
Can I suggest that you at least provide the option of doing what
emacs and many other text editors do -- choose as the default directory
the one associated with the document in the currently active window (the
window from which the open/save request came). For just about
everything I do, this would be a much more likely place to start a
search, and it would at the very least do away with the randomness of
starting in the directory of whatever project I happened to work on
yesterday or last week.
Your configuration pages contain huge numbers of much *much* less
useful options. Please consider adding this one.
The file open dialog isnt bound to the current active document.
And so it does not provide the feature to show the path, where the
current document cames from.
Further it depends if you use the system file dialog or the office
specific dialog ("Tools->Options->General" ... "Use Office dialogs").
The only features you currently have:
a) the last used path will be shown.
b) A fix directory (e.g. My Documents) is shown.
But note: a) will be a little bit confusing if you use the system file
dialog.
Then every file dialog opened by any other windows application will set
a new "last visited" path .-)
What do you mean with "using the path, where the document cames from" ?
1) The path of the document, which has currently the focus ..
or 2) the path of the last opened document inside the office ?
OK. If you whish to see this feature implemented inside OOo, you should
file an issue on openffice.org and flag it as FEATURE.
Steve McMillan
Professor of Physics
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Regards
Andreas
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