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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.
Neither is useful or particularly reasonable.
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 .-)
Well, I guess this is an explanation, but not a reasonable one. Seems
to me that the fact that the dialog isn't context sensitive constitutes
a design flaw.
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 ?
Seemed clear to me. Of course, I mean that if the focus is currently in
some document and I say "save" or "open," then most reasonable users
would expect the dialog to open in the directory associated with that
document. That's what I would want almost all of the time...
OK. If you wish to see this feature implemented inside OOo, you should
file an issue on openffice.org and flag it as FEATURE.
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