https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128216
--- Comment #7 from pb <[email protected]> --- 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 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:" 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. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
