https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40227

--- Comment #5 from Richard Neill <[email protected]> ---
Still true in 4.0.2.2

In every other editor, starting the editor with a non-existent filename causes
it to begin a new file of that type, in the relevant directory.

I do understand the rationale for the error-dialog "file doesn't exist", to
help out users who made a genuine error, but perhaps it could be changed to
give us a choice. Eg:

Error. The file you selected wasn't found. Would you like to create a new
file with that name? 
   [cancel]    [create]


So, for example this should work to open a new blank presentation in the 
Documents/projects/penguins directory:

cd Documents/projects/penguins/
libreoffice herring.odp

Thanks for your time.

P.S. A possible heuristic would be to look at the shell environment variables;
if $PWD != $HOME, then it's highly likely that the user intended the action of
creating a new file, rather than accidentally typing a broken filename.

-- 
You are receiving this mail because:
You are the assignee for the bug.
_______________________________________________
Libreoffice-bugs mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-bugs

Reply via email to