https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=21576

--- Comment #6 from Rainer Bielefeld 
<[email protected]> ---
IMHO is not an appropriate reasoning for WONTFIX. So I will try deliver in
addition ;-)

Currently user has few influence whether a link will be absolute or relative.
If "relative" is selected in 'Tools -> Options -> Load/Save', all links to
sources on the same drive will be relative, all inks to other drives or
external sources will be absolute. 

There is no visible difference between the links, you have to keep in mind that
the document you have opened is on drive "C:", os that all linked from "C:...."
is linked relative, all from Drive  "D:...." is linked absolute. 

But how can you know from what HDD you opened a document when you have opened
via a library like "User\Public\Documents\"? It's not visible from what drive
you opened without trying a 'save-As' or checking document properties. 

And after that I will have to check all my 2500 linked pictures in the document
 one by one whether there is a "file:///C:/" among all those "file:///D:/"
before I can be sure whether there is a relative link between the absolute ones
(or vice versa). I would like to see absolute ones in blue and relative ones in
black in the list.

But finally I have to agree more or less with Edwin, I would prefer a more
powerful solution what gives user control to decide whether a link should be
absolute or relative, and in that case a marker would be mandatory. So I can
accept the WONTFIX, but not because it would be useless, but because such a
solution would be half-hearted.

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