https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157000
Bug ID: 157000
Summary: sessions -- working sessions (groups of documents
you're working on) #2
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
hi,
I don't intend to pour duplicates on you...
but this new "feature" (functionality) has many aspects,
and now it comes to your mind because you want to do something (which you can1t
yet), and another time it might be a little different situation and a little
different "something" that you're missing from Writer...
It's like a deja vu :) you had a "day dream" and want to remember...
and go at it from various directions... hoping that now it'll "come back" :)
I'm hoping that I can bring it "back" for a few of us (including myself)
so hence this "series" of attempts at this functionality which I refer to as
sessions...
- - -
What I just did on my PC (based on Linux mint):
I've created another "desktop".... now there are 3...
and I've moved my Writer instances ("windows") into these, distributed
based on the work they belong to...
I have 3 "works" -- so to speak -- open...
this is why I added another "desktop"...
so I can "travel" from this one to the other.. depending on which I'd like to
focus on at the very moment...
Linux mint is a very stable system...
and I rarely reboot it...
so these 3 desktops (groups of open application instances / windows)
have the 3 heaps of work not only for a given hour but for a week or so...
... I've written down this situation so you could imagine where the idea for
the "sessions" functionality comes from :)
.....
ONE STEP towards this functionality could be:
the "WINDOW" menu... a little addition to it...
There could be a separator "- - - - -" / "_________" (or sg)
between the "desktops"...
say, the list goes:
Window 1
w2
w3
w4
w5
w6
.
.
.
w11
it could look like:
window 1
w2
w3
--------
w4
w5
--------
w6
.
.
.
w11
AND that would mean 3 "heaps"...
the 3 desktops...
This could be extremely helpful as right now WRITER doesn't sense where its
windows are... (which desktop)
and when you open a document... sometimes nothing happens...
cause it's already open... "in" / "on" another desktop...
when this happens, it'd be great help to see the open "windows" (which we
already can :)) and the groups' outline, so to speak...
(as I imagine, Writer can have no idea which "desktop" its instances are
"placed" at)
.................... +1
and, as a reminder, it'd be great to get a dialogue when starting Writer:
"open previous session?" -- to which we could reply: YEAS! :)
or/and we could set it in the settings like with firefox:
when starting Writer open previous session / continue from where you left work?
and the graphical "window list", what we see when there's no open document,
could be a great means to distinguish "sessions".. groups of documents that we
would like to open at once...
/////////// thank you for developing Writer!!! /////////////
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