https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33598
Maxim Monastirsky <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- OS|All |Linux (All) Version|3.6.6.2 release |Inherited From OOo --- Comment #10 from Maxim Monastirsky <[email protected]> --- @Jay: Note that the apache bug I referenced, was about expanding this list by default. The list itself was there before (since i#46800), but in an unexpanded state (which is the behavior you propose). So the difference between the Save dialog and the Export dialog is intentional. (And BTW the apache bug has the patch the caused this behavior, so the previous behavior can be easily restored by reverting these changes.) In fact there is a huge difference between these dialogs. The default type used by the Save dialog is obvious. It's the same as the type of the open document, or OpenDocument in case of a new document (or other type explicitly selected in Tools->Options...->Load/Save->General->Always save as). So in many cases a user would simply type a name and hit "Save" (unless he decides to use another type). However the default type used by the Export dialog is a random one. For example I get pdf in writer, html in calc, wmf in impress, and xpm in draw. And there is no indication about which type is going to be used (the types combo-box has "All formats" by default), so a user *must* use one of the lists to select some type. Also even if some user remembers the default type, there are less chances that this randomly pre-selected type is exactly the one that he wants to use. So most chances the user will need to use the list anyway. And you can't tell users to always add an extension manually, since it's much easier to select from a list. That's the reason it makes sense to have the list open by default, in case of CentOS 5. So from my point of view, the main question here is: How much should we care about such detail in an old (but still supported) system, when it doesn't fit so well in newer systems. But for the PDF export dialog I totally agree. There is only one format, and we don't need that list at all. And to solve the CentOS 5 case, we could simply change the title of that dialog to "Export to pdf" or something similar. (BTW I changed some fields that I forgot to change previously.) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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