https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98178
Bug ID: 98178
Summary: Usability regression: the File Open dialog has lost
the text field where you can paste in the filename
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 5.1.0.3 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
OS: Linux (All)
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
This bug refers to a UI change that occurred after 5.0.3. IMHO it is a large
backward step in the situation where you have a directory with a lot of files,
many with related names, and you just want to paste in the correct filename
from a Terminal window.
Although you can type the filename in manually, character by character, you
cannot paste the filename in with the mouse nor can you Ctrl-V paste the
filename in. You have to type it in, character by character, until you've
either typed the whole filename in, or until you're certain that the best-match
file is the one you wanted. Or manually scroll around and hunt for it by eye,
in a possibly very long list, until you;'ve found it.
This is intensely irritating when you've already found the correct file by
other means.
Oh, wait - the text entry field is (usually) available *some time after you
start typing in blind faith*, it just may take a while to appear after you've
started typing.
The text entry field may also appear as a narrow, transient text entry field
down near the Cancel/Open buttons, that may or may not disappear if you
backspace over the letters you've typed so you can paste in the whole filename;
and that transient text entry field may be replaced by a different and larger
text entry field with a "<x" ("delete the text entered") icon to its right,
positioned above the filtered list.
Why complicate it like this, and why hide the text entry field in the first
place?! You have hugely reduced the UI affordance for this feature. And I just
found that if I paste the filename in, even when a *single* matching filename
then appears in the filtered list below, the Open button is greyed out unless
I then also click on the *single* filename.
I sure hope this is a UI element that's under the LO team, and not a
consequence of Ubuntu or Gnom desktop "improvements".
The change looks like it has added complicated code that doesn't work
consistently, reduced affordance, and increased UI complexity.
Please revert this aspect of the UI change.
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