Quoting Andreas Schlüns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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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