https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156338
Bug ID: 156338
Summary: Templates. Imperfections dialog, rsp. confusing
template manager behavior
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 7.4.7.2 release
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Reporter: ales.bar...@seznam.cz
Description:
Libre office - Templates - Manage Templates - Templates
Imperfections dialog, rsp. confusing template manager behavior:
1. In the Templates dialog (Template Manager), the "Open" button should be
called "New Document" or "New from Template" or "Use Template" instead.
For the "Open" button, there should be an option to edit the template file
only (e.g. the *.ott file), whereby the name of the 'Edit Template' button
would then be more apt for this action.
2. The Templates dialog has two forms of template viewing: either Thumbnail
View or List View.
The current display form is not indicated by squeezing the appropriate toggle
icon.
3. If I set the display form to List View, and if the number of templates shown
is small at the same time (e.g. if the list of templates has only 2 items), the
dialog is reduced in height.
So far, so ok. But: Once I change the display form back to Thumbnail View,
the dialog stays lowered and no longer expands in height, making template
thumbnails very difficult to recognize!
4. In the dialog I miss the possibility of creating a new copy of an existing
template!
5. I lack control over where the template file is physically stored.
The Template Manager dialog does not respond to any "manual" ("external")
changes in the naming and location of template files.
In the dialog, the user's primary defined template name is only an "internal
Alias" of sorts, not the actual filename. I misunderstood the idea of the
author (see point 6 below).
It's definitely not a unique identifier for the user! In addition, this alias
remains visible in the dialog, although a template file that is supposed to
represent either no longer exists or has been externally renamed by the user.
It often refers to a completely different file already!
This results in a less cautious user being able to be misled and lose their
data (e.g. by transcribing to lose the content of a previously identically
titled template, which he laboriously created for even a few hours)!
6. I wonder if a "template" (e.g., a Writer template) is an information set
that is contained entirely in only one single physical disk file.
Furthermore, I wonder if it is still the case that each disk file (within a PC)
is positively identified: by the disk name (root), by the complete path in the
directory structure, and by the file name, including the suffix, thus e.g. as
follows:
"c:\Users\Ales\AppData\Roaming\LibreOffice\4\user\template\MyTemplate1.ott!
If the answer to both questions above is YES, then I wonder what led the author
of the program to use such a misleading and unhelpful system of Aliases,
"name_pictures" and "icon insights" in the Templates dialog, which often does
not reflect the current state of physically stored templates!
I get the same negative impression from the initial LibreOffice dialog (in the
much larger right part of the introductory dialog, template and document
previews are mixed without any structure - just behind the way the magician
time has brought them, and often they are no longer up to date either, so they
are not usable (I have to manually lubricate them if I want to use them)!
A simple updated list of complete template file names, i.e. a complete path and
physical file names, would be far more useful (to me, at least). If the
programme maker wanted to shine, it could allow the user to structure templates
according to their own themes (but not force them to have any internal fixed
fixed fixed breakdowns),
As a bonus, he could attach a page 1 preview to each file, file information
(date and time of creation and last editing ...) and the ability to attach a
user note - to each file add a description of what the template is for, or what
it contains.
Please take this text as the user's modest (and humble) contribution for the
purpose of improving the next version of the program in the future.
;-)
AB
Steps to Reproduce:
1.writer
2.File
3.Templates
Actual Results:
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Expected Results:
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Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: No
Additional Info:
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