https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139991
Bug ID: 139991
Summary: Use user-defined default template when opening 0-byte
files with OD* extensions
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: LibreOffice
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
After fixing tdf#133661, the documents created using Windows Explorer's
ShellNew command follow some LibreOffice settings (language, fonts). However,
they still do not honor user-defined default templates (as configured in
File->Templates->Manage Templates). This means that the two methods of creating
new LibreOffice documents (from within LibreOffice application, and from
Explorer's context menu), which from user's PoV should be interchangeable and
give identical results, in fact behave differently: the former method does what
user told to do, while the latter ignored user default template setting.
With the fix to tdf#123476, LibreOffice now opens 0-byte files with ODT/ODS/etc
extensions as empty documents in the corresponding component. This paves a way
to implement the missing functionality: process such files to make them use
default templates, and then create empty files in Windows ShellNew handler
(i.e., drop soffice.* files in C:\Program
Files\LibreOffice\share\template\shellnew, and replace "FileName" with
"NullFile" in ShellNew registry subkeys [1]).
We should detect that the opened file that uses our native filter is 0-byte
file (tools::isEmptyFileUrl) somewhere before the call to
SfxObjectShell::DoLoad, and use SfxObjectFactory::GetStandardTemplate to get
the default template for the component service. Then we must use the template
to initialize the document, but unlike the normal creation of a new document
from a template, we must make it have the name and location of the 0-byte file.
I don't have a specific proposal where should this happen, and how to implement
the substitution of temporary storage (that is used for newly created files)
with the 0-byte file, thus not marking this an easy hack.
[1]
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/shell/context#extending-the-new-submenu
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