On Thursday 30 June 2005 19:35, + Steve McMillan wrote:
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> 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.
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On Monday 25 July 2005 12:20, Andreas Schlüns wrote:
> Hello Steve !
>
> 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.
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