https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128216
--- Comment #9 from Hartmut Schorrig <[email protected]> --- (In reply to pb from comment #7) > There are alternate solutions which might be easier to implement. > > For example, on the properties dialog for the image, and/or on the file > selection dialog, there should be a check box[es] for "relative"/"absolute" > in addition to the current "link". > > Right now this behavior is controlled, apparently, by > Menu/Tools/Options/LIbre Office/Load & Save/General - Save URLs relative to > file system. > > What I suggested above would allow choice of relative/absolute by image. If > that is too much trouble to implement, it would be sufficient to include a > note on the properties dialog and the file selection dialog to the effect of > "file link will be saved as [relative|absolute] according to global > settings." (as the case may be). That only requires sending an extra 1 bit > message to the dialogs, without the need to handle more user input. It is helpfully to see and/or select the absolute path with the known file dialog window, and also see a check box [x] store as relative path, and then, if it is checked, see the resulting relative path. That is a user friendly solution. > > (It would be really nice if "global settings" were a hyperlink that opened > the place to set it.) > > Many users on Windows or Mac might not even know what a relative path is, or > the notation for it. If so, then a path such as "../../foo/myimage.jpg" > might confuse them. Instead the properties dialog could say "file path > resolves to:" Yes, that's why show the resulting relative path, only if [x] store relative is selected. A (stupid) user can now see what's happen, select and deselect, think about and look a little bit in internet what a relative path is. If the user cannot deal with it, one should deselect this option. But I guess that many users know about relative paths. > > There is also another problem with displaying the relative path. Until the > document is saved, the target path for the document is not known. > Presumably, the relative path that is written into the document is relative > to the saved location. This can be solved by an error message "Please save your document first" instead of displaying the resulting relative path -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
