https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63330
Priority: medium
Bug ID: 63330
Assignee: [email protected]
Summary: wish for better CLI integration: when launched from
command-line, please default to the presentation's
directory for file browsers
Severity: enhancement
Classification: Unclassified
OS: Linux (All)
Reporter: [email protected]
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Version: 4.0.2.2 release
Component: Libreoffice
Product: LibreOffice
Summary: Please make use of the $PWD variable for file-picker defaults.
I tend to keep documents (especially presentations) well organised, in a deep
directory structure, where each project is in its own directory, together the
relevant files (pictures, videos, diagrams etc).
So my workflow goes as follows (names changed for privacy):
0. I'm already at the command line.
1. cd Documents/consulting/projects/penguins/feeding/
#I get here rapidly using tab-completion
2. libreoffice herring.odp
3. Now I start to work on the presentation. When I add files (insert pictures,
or videos, or use file->open), Impress (or Writer) open the file picker in the
*wrong* place; either in my home-directory, or the last place I was looking
when I last used L.O. on a different project. Neither is helpful, and it's
cognitively jarring to be put into the "wrong" context.
It would be really useful if the file-picker would default to the same path
that my presentation is in, rather than elsewhere.
Might I suggest a heuristic:
1. The current behaviour is fine on Windows, (and maybe even on Linux when the
program is launched from the graphical menu.)
2. When starting from the command-line [and especially when the user has
changed directory to somewhere different, i.e. where $PWD != $HOME ]
then the file-open and insert-file dialogs should default to
$(dirname herring.odp) #or possibly $PWD.
This would be a huge timesaver for programmers, and make LO work similarly to
the way that other editors operate.
Thanks for your time.
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