https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160129
Bug ID: 160129
Summary: Writer TEMPLATE #1: template names and template
filenames (in the name of transparency)
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 24.8.0.0 alpha0+ Master
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
hi,
It is extremely hard to reproduce all the weird scenarios that templates can
come up with :)
But I guess we all know of their existence :) And that a good enough reason to
work on them, trying to make them function better.
THEY DO FUNCTION! hundreds of millions use them on a daily basis, and they work
properly. Only for a minority of Writer users (writers) keep bumping into
sometimes weird situations :)
- - -
One such weird situation is that I have a template, say, alamond-23...
and when I create a document of it (based on it and linked to it), in its
properties this will be the template name, "alamond-23"....
At one point I'll want to create a new year's template, so I'll save
"alamond-23.ott" as "alamond-24.ott"
"SAVE AS" -- easy-peasy... a commonplace in working with PCs..
BUT at one point, later on, I'll find that when I change the template, the
documents won't update... (offer the update)...
At another point, later-later on, when I open "alamond-24", it'll be
"alamond-23.ott"
(Well, actually, not like that...
instead, "alamond-23" will open for editing as "alamond-24.ott"...
and "alamond-24", the template won't be found anywhere...
except in the template directory...
and when you import it..
there will be, finally, an "alamond-24"...
but as you open it for editing (File / Templates / manage templates / edit"),
it will turn out to be "alamond-24-1.ott")
THE POINT BEING:
template names and template filenames should NOT be different...
alamond-01.ott --> alamond-01
moreover...
Opening alamond-01.ott with Libreoffice should mean the same thing in any
circumstances.
Opening it "via" File / templates / manage templates"..
or opening it from recent files list...
or in the file manager...
it should mean the same thing....
in the name of transparency :)
I hope this post doesn't sound stupid, ignorant, not to mention arrogant or
anything :)
I respect the fact that Libreoffice WORKS! Perfectly, for hundreds of millions
on a daily basis. I respect the whole of it.
- - - thank you for developing Libreoffice and Writer - - -
to be continued...
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