https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74737
Priority: medium
Bug ID: 74737
Assignee: [email protected]
Summary: UI: In FILEOPEN dialogs, make it easier to open files
read-only
Severity: enhancement
Classification: Unclassified
OS: All
Reporter: [email protected]
Hardware: All
Status: NEW
Version: 4.1.4.2 release
Component: UI
Product: LibreOffice
Currently, the file-open dialogs (regardless of whether Tools > Options... >
LibreOffice > General > "Use LibreOffice dialogs" is enabled) have a checkbox
for "Read-only" in the lower-left corner. The "Open" button is in the
lower-right corner. This makes it un-ergonomic to open a file read-only.
There are situations when a person often opens files read-only. For example:
When a document is opened read/write by LO, a lock file is written next to the
document; when the document is closed, the lock file is removed. This causes
the filesystem to update the directory's modification time to when the lock
file was removed. This can cause some backup algorithms to detect that the
directory has been changed since the last backup and to back up the whole
directory even though no changes have been made. This can be undesirable when
backing up to a USB thumb drive, due to the comparatively small write lifetime
& low speed of the drive. So the user may get used to opening files read-only
to avoid making the unneeded lock files.
Another case is that the user frequently gets files by e-mail and wants to be
able to open them read-only before bothering to set the files read-only at the
filesystem level.
Please consider enhancing the file-open dialogs to make it easier to open files
read-only. One way to do this would be to change the Open button to a split
button with an "Open read-only" option.
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